[SciPy-Dev] preparing for scipy 0.8 release

[Warren Weckesser]

Ralf Gommers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that scipy 0.7.2 and numpy 1.4.1 are out the door, it's time to 
> look at what needs to be done for scipy 0.8.
>
> Some questions
> - What needs to be done and what do you all want included that's not 
> in trunk yet in terms of features / new code / code cleanups?
> - Right now scipy trunk needs to be built against numpy trunk. Is it 
> feasible to build against numpy 1.3 still, to get one 
> backwards-compatible release? If not, 0.8 should be released in 
> parallel with numpy 2.0.
> - Time line: do we want a release before SciPy2010 (end of June)? If 
> so, there's only a month left before a freeze.


How about freeze on May 25, and final release a week before the 
conference (say June 21)? 


Warren

> If not, we could just provide snapshot binaries in June.
>
> Here's some things that I personally think should be done:
> - clean up tests so nothing is printed when they are run (deprecation 
> warnings etc)
> - clean up build warnings as far as possible
> - create a little bit of order in Trac
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
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