More python 2.7 fun: deprecation of PyCObject API

[David Malcolm]

On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 13:44 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:20 AM, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Personally, I'm leaning towards option (a) above (the "don't override
> > warnings" option): closing the various as WONTFIX, and adding a section
> > to the release notes, whilst working towards fixing this in Fedora 15.
> > Affected applications should be patched in Fedora 14 to avoid touching
> > the relevant warning setting, and we'll fix the root cause in Fedora 15.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > Dave
> 
> I'll have to read up closely on my upstream numpy and scipy are doing
> in their development branches with regard to this.  I think for F14
> I'm going to have to live with using the CObject API for these. I
> think the next major version of numpy is going to have this mostly
> sorted but i'm not keen on pushing it into F14..not unless I have to.
> 
> A guarantee you there is a crapload of homebrew academic/science code
> out there that uses the CObject API in a numpy oriented workflow.  You
> are definitely going to need a release note blurb with a reference
> with more detail information on how to work around the problem for
> people who run into it with their home brew code.

Agreed.

> -jef"not cool"spaleta

Sorry about this.