[Numpy-discussion] getting numPy happening for sciPy

[Robert Kern]

David Cournapeau wrote:

> I am willing to volunteer for the scipy part: I have quite extensive 
> experience with building on linux now, and I can now build on windows 
> without too much difficulties (I mean hardware-wise).
> 
> Concerning the release date: it basically means giving enough time to 
> solve the current bugs, right ?

There are too many. Build bugs should be fixed and anything that impairs the
functioning of whole packages. Incorporating patches already submitted would be
the next priority. Fixing isolated little bugs can be pushed back.

> I solved a few bugs from the 0.5.3 
> milestone, but some of them are outside my knowledge (weave, linalg bugs 
> which depend on fortran code).

You're much too modest. That was hardly "a few bugs." You've been a great help.
Thank you.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco