On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:59 PM, David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know how people feel about going toward a time-based > release process for numpy (and scipy).
-1 I'm just a common user, but please, no. The big Linux distros do this and it drives me nuts. Just when things are finally beginning to settle down, they throw another big, buggy release out the door because they are trying to meet some ridiculous 6 month cycle. "We" haven't even gotten the major distros to dump Numeric-24 yet (something else depends on it - pygtk maybe?), though most offer numpy as an option; what kind of disaster will we have with new numpy releases every 3 or 6 months? Numpy doesn't (and probably shouldn't) change that rapidly. I would really hope that the core numpy is solid, stable, and predictable. I like major and minor version numbers that indicate a major change is coming. If it's only a minor version number change, I know that I can update it safely and go merrily computing on my way. "2008.04" doesn't tell me if it is a minor bug fix or a major blow to my sanity. So, please, if at all possible, keep the feature numbering. Thanks for hearing me out. Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
