A Monday 24 November 2008, David Cournapeau escrigué:
Jarrod Millman wrote:
Now that scipy 0.7.0b1 has been tagged, I wanted to start planning for the NumPy 1.3.0: http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/milestone/1.3.0
For completeness, we were wondering with Jarrod if the main focus of 1.3 could be python 2.6 compatibility (plus what is already in, of course). This is mainly a concern on Mac OS X and Windows (numpy seems to build and work OK on 2.6 on linux last time I tried).
The rationale was that although python 2.6 is not really a must have compared to 2.5 for most usage of numpy/scipy, since people are now directed to python 2.6 on python.org for windows and mac os X installs, getting it working on 2.6. ASAP would avoid too much trouble for newcomers.
Not only newcomers, we all know people that likes to have the latest software in their machines even, as you said, 2.6 is not a big step forward in terms of new functionality. So +1 for having support for 2.6 ASAP. Cheers, -- Francesc Alted