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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:32:51 -0600 From: Travis Oliphant <oliphant@ee.byu.edu> To: numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, python-list@python.org Subject: [Numpy-discussion] Status of Numeric

The purpose of this email is to assess the attitude of the community regarding how these changes to Numeric should be accomplished.

These are the two options we can see: * freeze old Numeric 23.x and make all changes to Numeric 24.x still keeping Numeric separate from SciPy * freeze old Numeric 23.x and subsume Numeric into SciPy essentially creating a new SciPy arrayobject that is fast and lightweight. Anybody wanting this new array object would get it by installing scipy_base. Numeric would never change in the future but the array in scipy_base would.

My preference would be for option #1 -- continue further development of Numeric as a separate package with new improvements going into the 24.x series. It's my experience that when projects get subsumed, additional requirements tend to creep in, even if they're not actually "required." --Paul Magwene