[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: [SciPy-user] ANN: SciPy 0.3 Released

[eric jones]

Hey Jerry,

We'd like to eventually build Mac installations as part of our standard 
build process, but I have no idea when that will actually happen. 

Is there someone out there that can build and package scipy as a .dmg 
file?  If so, we'll stick it on the download page.  Fink is also a 
possibility, but many Mac users I've run into really frown upon Fink and 
would really prefer .dmg installs.  I guess we can stick both up on the 
site so that everyone is happy.

thanks,
eric

Lance Boyle wrote:

> I see that SciPy 0.3 has been released and that perhaps I should take 
> another look at it. What are the installation issues with respect to 
> MacPython? Some time back I was Finking and battling two Pythons and 
> trying to compile ATLAS and I finally decided that other things were 
> more important.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: "Travis N. Vaught" <travis at enthought.com>
>> Date: April 21, 2004 2:40:24 PM MST
>> To: scipy-dev at scipy.org, scipy-user at scipy.org, 
>> python-announce at python.org, numpy-discussion at lists.sourceforge.net, 
>> python-list at python.org
>> Cc: Subject: [SciPy-user] ANN: SciPy 0.3 Released
>> Reply-To: SciPy Users List <scipy-user at scipy.net>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> SciPy 0.3 has been released and binaries are available from the 
>> scipy.org site.
>>
>> http://www.scipy.org
>>
>> Changes since the 0.1 version (0.1 enjoyed a wide release, there was 
>> a version 0.2 that had limited exposure) include the following:
>>
>> - general improvements: Added utility functions for constructing 
>> arrays by concatenation, intended mainly for command-line use. Added 
>> bmat constructor for easy creation of block matrices. Added mat 
>> constructor for constructing matrices (where * is matrix 
>> multiplication). Added many PIL utility functions so that if the PIL 
>> is installed, image loading, saving, and other operations are 
>> available. Added scipy.info, which handles dynamic docstrings and 
>> class help better than python's help command.
>>
>> - documentation: much improved
>>
>> - sparse: superLU upgraded to 3.0
>>
>> - optimize: Added non-linear conjugate gradient algorithm. 
>> Improvements to BFGS algorithm and Wolfe-condition line-search. Added 
>> two CONSTRAINED optimization techniques. Added simulated annealing 
>> and brute-force optimization strategies and Powell's method. Added 
>> many very good 1-D root-finding routines.
>>
>> - stats: Added many statistical distributions. Many continuous and 
>> discrete random variables are available with a simple mechanism for 
>> adding new ones. Added several statistical tests.
>>
>> - special: Added MANY new special functions. |general_function| 
>> renamed to |vectorize| and moved to scipy_base. Improved the way 
>> domain errors are handled (user specified display of problems). More 
>> tests on special functions added.
>>
>> - fftpack: replaced with fftpack2--can optionally be configured to 
>> support djbfft
>>
>> - io: Reading of MATLAB .mat files (version 4 and 5) supported. 
>> Writing version 4 .mat files supported. Added very flexible and 
>> general_purpose text file reader. Added shelving save operation to 
>> save variables into an importable module. Routines for reading and 
>> writing fortran-records.
>>
>> - linalg: Linear algebra is greatly improved over SciPy 0.1. ATLAS is 
>> now optional (but encouraged). Most lapack functions have simplified 
>> interfaces (all lapack and blas available). Matrix exponentials and 
>> other matrix functions added.
>>
>> - signal: Added support for filter design and LTI system analysis.
>>
>> - xplt: Updated xplt to use newer pygist so that Windows platform is 
>> supported. Addition of several plotting types.
>>
>> - integrate: added another ODE integrator. Added romberg integration 
>> and several other integration approaches.
>>
>>
>> The complete release notes can be found here:
>>
>> http://www.scipy.org/download/scipy_release_notes_0.3.html
>>
>>
>> You'll also notice that scipy.org is now a spanking new Plone portal 
>> (http://www.plone.org -- keep up the good work, plone folks).
>>
>> This is the first binary release in a long time and we hope to 
>> increase the frequency to every 6 months or so.
>>
>> If you'd like to follow or join the community, you can subscribe to 
>> the mailing lists here:
>>
>> http://www.scipy.org/mailinglists/
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Travis
>>
>>
>> BTW SciPy is:
>> -------------
>> SciPy is an open source library of scientific tools for Python. SciPy 
>> supplements the popular Numeric module, gathering a variety of high 
>> level science and engineering modules together as a single package.
>>
>> SciPy includes modules for graphics and plotting, optimization, 
>> integration, special functions, signal and image processing, genetic 
>> algorithms, ODE solvers, and others.
>>
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