On Thursday 06 December 2001 06:39 pm, you wrote:
We've (well Travis O. mostly) been working to divide SciPy into multiple "levels," and think this provides a solution for a wide range of users. There are 3 levels now, and there is likely to be a 4th "sumo" level added later.
Level 1 is the core routines. Level 2 includes most Numeric algorithms. Level 3 includes graphics and perhaps a few other things. The sumo package would be a large all inclusive package with Python/Numeric/SciPy/VTK/wxPython(maybe)/PyCrust/MayaVi(maybe) and possibly others.
I think this sounds GREAT! I've been looking for such a package to provide my company with a migration path from IDL, and such a package just might do it. If you're looking for other suggestions to add to sumo, I'd like to suggest ReportLab (or some sort of PDF generation tool) and as many scientific data formats (such as HDF, netCDF, and about a million others) as are sufficiently mature to be included. I've signed up to do an HDF5 port, and have been given a really nice start by Robert Kern. However, this one's not yet ready for inclusion. Phillip