On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm slowly coming to the conviction that there should be no C-ABI changes in > 1.2.
It does not make sense to revert those changes anymore, but we keep having those discussions, and I still don't understand whether there is a consensus here. Breaking a bit or breaking a lot is the same: we broke API in 1.1, we are breaking in 1.2, will we break in 1.3 ? If we we will always break when we "need" to, at least I would like to be clear on that. I personally think it is wrong to break API and ABI. I don't care about the version where we break; I think the focus on the version is a bit misplaced, because in python (and numpy), the version is different from what is the norm in other big open source projects anyway (in any open source project I know, breaking between N.x and N.x+1 is a bug). The focus should be the period of time you can rely on a stable API (and ABI). Changing the API every three months sounds really wrong to me, whatever the version is. That's something that most if not all successful open source projects used by other ones do (gtk, qt, kde, etc...). I don't see what's so different in numpy so that we could afford doing something those other projects can't. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
