On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon wrote:

Travis Oliphant wrote:

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Proposal (just an idea to start discussion):

Subdivide scipy into several super packages that install cleanly but can also be installed separately. Implement a CPAN-or-yum-like repository and query system for installing scientific packages.

Yes! If SciPy could become a kind of scientific CPAN for python from which users can download the packages they need, it would be a real improvement. In the end, the meaning of SciPy evolve into "the website where you can download scientific packages for python" rather than "a python package for scientific computing", and the SciPy developers might not feel OK with that.

Personally, I would be OK with that. SciPy as a "download site" does not exclude it to provide also a "scipy package" as it is now. I am all in favore of refactoring current scipy modules as much as possible. Pearu