[Numpy-discussion] Plans for Numpy 1.4.0 and scipy 0.8.0

Charles R Harris charlesr.harris at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 03:06:07 EDT 2009


2009/6/22 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za>:
> 2009/6/22 David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>:
>> My main motivation for an early numpy 1.4 is scipy 0.8.0. But if other
>> people think numpy 1.4.0 as it is now is too 'weak', making scipy
>> 0.8.0 compatible with numpy 1.3.0 is technically possible. Then we can
>> talk about adding those features for numpy 1.4.0, and release it
>> later.
>
> I think there are enough changes for a 1.4 release.  It makes little
> sense to put our effort into making SciPy compatible with an old
> version of NumPy, rather than moving both packages forward.
>

It's looking like fixing bugs and trying to get a working windows 64
bit release might be what we should shoot for.

Chuck



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