It seems we're due for another release...there haven't been any major changes since November, but there are a number of small improvements and bugfixes, including bugfixes for compiling on Windows (I hope, still waiting for feedback), Solaris, and less string type checking for the SciPy folks. Does anyone have anything else they'd like to see in sooner rather than later? Any blockers? Otherwise I'll start rolling alphas and testing on the freshly-minted Sage 4.3.1.
I'd like to see an 0.13 soon thereafter. I'm imagining a big release where we pull in a bunch of stuff that's been "almost ready" for a while: 1. Safe type inference (on by default) This seems to be basically ready, but is too big of a change for an x.y.z release. 2. Closures Yes, this has been "almost ready" for a long time, but the only bug now is a refnanny complaint. (The refcounts are correct, it's a question of miss-placed give/got refs on the scope object). Craig Citro wants to run another battery of tests on it as well, it's just a question of him or I finding a couple of hours (at most I think) to sit down and do it. 3. C++ support This has been lingering way to long. Danilo got some stuff done over the summer, but there's still a huge amount to go. However, in the spirit of release early, release often, the stuff that is there should get out and get used. Last month I cleaned up a lot of stuff, and synced up with the 0.12 release. I also wrote several tests, fixed all the bugs they exposed, finished operator overloading support, and improved error reporting so unimplemented stuff will give appropriate errors rather than cause compiler crashes. Danilo also submitted a small patch over the break. It's not to the point that one can easily use all of STL (that was the goal, but there's no clean way to declare, for example, vector<int>::iterator, and references are a work in progress, let alone stack-allocated objects (or emulations thereof)), but it is still a huge step forward in the way C++ classes are declared and used. Thoughts? - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
