I had a look at the backwards incompatibilities. This one stood out:
Submodule names are no longer imported with from sympy import *. They can still be imported directly like from sympy import core or accessed like sympy.core, or like sys.modules['sympy.simplify'] for modules that share names with SymPy functions. Is this really necessary? On the face of it, I suspect this could cause a fair amount of code in the wild to break. I'm not sure what breaking this functionality gains, but it surely may cause down stream pain. Jason moorepants.info +01 530-601-9791 On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:09 PM Oscar Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm about to put up the release candidate for sympy 1.6. I think that > the release blockers are covered and the performance regressions > identified so far have been addressed. Thanks to all who have helped > with that. > > I have been through the release notes and tried to extract what are > the potentially backward incompatible changes in this release and > added them at the top here: > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Release-Notes-for-1.6 > > I'm struggling a bit right now to say what the "highlights" of the > release are. Looking through the notes there are a *lot* of > improvements but it's hard to pull out any coherent big themes. This > would probably be easier if we released more often... > > Can anyone offer any suggestions for what sort of things we could list > as highlights? Don't be shy about suggesting your own contributions! I > guess the idea would be to list something that is significant and > perhaps the cumulative output of a number of PRs. Perhaps in > refactoring there are often no release notes for individual PRs but at > the end a major refactor could be considered worth mentioning. > > What sort of things might a "user" be interested in from this release? > > Oscar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxSEkNPjffwqiOA4-8xP0_1D8wAfLVrU9SbnvYSTRZC_Gg%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AhwGFHgTC_3qBpjx25W8uydtiuJejnmbpG%3Dk1mtJkFj%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com.
