On 13 December 2014 at 13:34, Lars Buitinck <larsmans@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't, but I just checked the NumPy version that comes with various Linux distros so we can see what people are likely to have. There is no Ubuntu long-term support release that ships 1.5, only 1.4 (10.04) or 1.6 (12.04) [1]. Debian doesn't list 1.5 for any of its releases either [2]. CentOS 6 ships 1.4 [3], while CentOS 7 ships 1.7.1 [4].
If you are using your OS's Numpy, you are likely to grab Scipy from there too. As far as I know, the only reason why someone would not upgrade Numpy is because they can't touch their systems, in which case the existence of a newer version of Scipy is equally irrelevant. Furthermore, compiling Numpy is easier than Scipy, so if you can update the later, you should be able to upgrade both. I think never versions of Scipy should just target maintained versions of Numpy, for some definition of "maintained". /David.