Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: matplotlib and scipy_core

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> writes:

    Eric> To use scipy as a complete replacement for Numeric or
    Eric> numarray will require work in numerix, in the setup.py build
    Eric> system, and possibly in cntr.c, which needs to build
    Eric> separate versions for numarray and Numeric. (I expect little
    Eric> or no change will actually be needed in cntr.c.)

I talked to Travis about this at scipy and he said that with the new
array interface, we wouldn't need to compile separate extensions for
each of Numeric, numarray and scipy (as we do now, eg with
_nc_transforms, _na_transforms, etc).  This is good news because it
implies shorter compile times and smaller binary distributions, but I
can't quite understand how this would work yet, eg, to support the
there packages with one binary *.so).  But this may be some of the
black magic of the new array interface.  If correct, this approach
would require *either* Numeric 24, numarray (something recent) or
scipy_base.

Perhaps Todd has further insight, as the author of numerix and
presumably the implementor of the array interface for numarray...

JDH