[Numpy-discussion] NumPy beta release plan

[Travis Oliphant]

Christian Kristukat wrote:

>Travis Oliphant <oliphant.travis <at> ieee.org> writes:
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>>Some of you may have noticed that things have been changing rapidly in 
>>the NumPy world (if you were out of the office in June then all the 
>>activity may seem overwhelming). 
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>>All of this activity is based on the fact that the upcoming beta release 
>>will mean a feature freeze for NumPy. 
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>Recently numpy.distutils switched to install to /usr/local/lib instead of
>/usr/lib. Is that intended? I'd prefer to have it back at /usr/lib in
>1.0beta.
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What gets installed in /usr/lib ?

I'm pretty sure the install directory is determined by the Python 
installation.  Exceptions to this are probably bugs.

-Travis