On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Jussi Lehtola
<jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
A Python package BuildRequiring numpy does not need to mean
anything.
All of my packages on the list BuildRequires numpy simply because the
install scripts have a dummy check in them for checking that all
necessary runtime modules are installed.. so AFAIK nothing is compiled
against numpy.
I'm not saying all those packages are affected... I'm saying that's a
starting point for packages to be checked.
The ABI break is real. Quoting
scipy.org:
"NumPy 1.4.0 release pulled. (2010-2-8) Due to an unintended ABI break
the 1.4.0 release has temporarily been pulled pending a decision on
how to handle the ABI incompatibility."
Its almost two months later and NumPy 1.4.0 is still pulled from
upstream. Not a good sign. Do we revert to back to to the old version
if upstream doesn't re-release 1.4 before F13 release date? Sort of an
important question.
I'm still coming up to speed on the details by reading the upstream mailinglist.
-jef