[Numpy-discussion] Re: [SciPy-dev] numpy/scipy some remarks

[Travis Oliphant]

Andrew Jaffe wrote:

>I have some related numpy/scipy questions:
>
>  - I recently upgraded to the most recent SVN of numpy, without doing
>likewise for scipy. I found that the numpy.test() calls failed in a
>couple of places -- because *scipy* hadn't been updated with the latest
>dtype updates! (I can't reproduce the errors since I've since updated
>scipy.) I thought the whole point of the numpy/scipy split was to avoid
>'implicit' calls of scipy from numpy, wasn't it?
>  
>
Not entirely.  The issue was namespace clashes between packages.    This 
issue has come up before and is localized to the numpy.dual module.  If 
somebody would like to re-write the module to contain a register 
function that scipy hooks into to register new functions for the ones 
listed there,  then that would be a better solution.  But, I haven't had 
time to do it.

-Travis