Also in the case of a Numeric package which goes into the standard distribution should the other packages be integrated in the Numeric namespace or build under an external tree in the site-packages directory? I do not know the proposed scheme, is there something written down somewhere?
__Janko
I didn't make a proposal; I was trying to gauge whether people would freak at a change that required modification of existing scripts, or not. My thoughts, however, were along the lines of two packages, Numeric and MathPack. Then I would put a substructure under MathPack by subject area. Already, however, we see ugliness on the horizon: the module RandomArray imports both ranlib and a linear algebra package, so we have Package Dependencies and all the glorious ugliness of real life. I'm sure we'd have more in the future. There are competing packages for some things, such as random numbers. Ugh, how to make this easy for a random scientist who drops by...