[Numpy-discussion] Deprecating matrices.

[Bryan Van de Ven]

There's a good chance that bokeh.charts will be split off into a separately distributed package as well. Hopefully being a much smaller, pure Python project makes it a more accessible target for anyone interested in maintaining it, and if no one is interested in it anymore, well that fact becomes easier to judge. I think it would be a reasonable approach here for the same reasons. 

Bryan

> On Jan 3, 2017, at 13:54, Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That's not a bad idea. Matplotlib is currently considering something similar for its mlab module. It has been there since the beginning, but it is very outdated and very out-of-scope for matplotlib. However, there are still lots of code out there that depends on it. So, we are looking to split it off as its own package. The details still need to be worked out (should we initially depend on the package and simply alias its import with a DeprecationWarning, or should we go cold turkey and have a good message explaining the change).
> 
> Ben Root
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Todd <toddrjen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Just throwing this click bait out for discussion. Now that the `@` operator is available and things seem to be moving towards Python 3, especially in the classroom, we should consider the real possibility of deprecating the matrix type and later removing it. No doubt there are old scripts that require them, but older versions of numpy are available for those who need to run old scripts. 
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Chuck
>>> 
>> 
>> What if the matrix class was split out into its own project, perhaps as a scikit.  That way those who really need it can still use it.  If there is sufficient desire for it, those who need it can maintain it.  If not, it will hopefully it will take long enough for it to bitrot that everyone has transitioned.
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