On 6/30/06, Simon Burton <simon@arrowtheory.com> wrote:
General confusion in the community. The whole numeric->numarray->numpy story is a little strange for people to believe. Or at least the source for many jokes. Also, there is no mention of numpy on the numarray page. The whole thing smells a little fishy :)
I can say that coming to numpy early this year I was confused by this, and in fact I began by using numarray because the documentation was available and clearly written. I now support Travis on his book, since none of this would be happening so rapidly without him, but as I was looking for relief from my IDL license woes this turned me off a bit.
From Googling, It just wasn't clear which was the future, especially since as I dug deeper I saw old references to numpy that were not referring to the current project. I do think that this is more clear now, but the pages
http://numeric.scipy.org/ -- Looks antiquated http://www.numpy.org/ -- is empty are not helping. numeric.scipy.org needs to be converted to the wiki look and feel of the rest of scipy.org, or at least made to look modern. numpy.org should point to the new page perhaps. And the numarray page should at least discuss the move to numpy and have links. Erin