[Numpy-discussion] Going toward time-based release ?

[Eric Firing]

This is a patch for the previous message; I got distracted and failed to 
finish a sentence.

Eric Firing wrote:
[...]
> versions are unintentionally mixed.  This will probably work if an 
> old_ma array ends up as input for a new_ma function, but the reverse 
> often will not work correctly.  (Pierre GM tried to make his MaskedArray
handle old-style ma arrays gracefully, but there were no changes to old 
ma to make the reverse true.)