pydata/pandas — pull request #7891 by jreback (2014-07-31 17:15:09+00:00)
Title: CLN/INT: remove Index as a sub-class of NDArray

make ``Index`` now subclass ``PandasObject/IndexOpsMixin`` rather than ``ndarray``
should allow much easier new Index classes (e.g. #7640)

closes #5080, preserves pickle compat for >= 0.8.0
back compat for pickles is now way simpler

This removed pickle compat for < 0.8.0 (well I think it does but can't really prove it). maybe can add it back if strong interest.

ToDo:

- docs
- [ ] release note
- [ ] warnings in io.rst about this change
- [ ] pickle compat now > 0.8.0
- [ ] fixes ``.repeat`` on MultiIndex (broken in master)
- [ ] merge with searchsorted issues/PR ( #6712, #7447, #6469)
- [ ] tests fixed (FIXMES), just a few left
- [ ] perf
- [ ] json completely broken ATM
- [ ] #7796 FIXME (PeriodIndex not supported in HDF), not really a big deal