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> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:32:51 -0600
> From: Travis Oliphant <oli...@ee...>
> To: num...@li..., pyt...@py...
> Subject: [Numpy-discussion] Status of Numeric
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> The purpose of this email is to assess the attitude of the community
> regarding how these changes to Numeric should be accomplished.
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> These are the two options we can see:
> * freeze old Numeric 23.x and make all changes to Numeric 24.x still
> keeping Numeric separate from SciPy
> * freeze old Numeric 23.x and subsume Numeric into SciPy essentially
> creating a new SciPy arrayobject that is fast and lightweight. Anybody
> wanting this new array object would get it by installing scipy_base.
> Numeric would never change in the future but the array in scipy_base would.
My preference would be for option #1 -- continue further development of
Numeric as a separate package with new improvements going into the 24.x
series. It's my experience that when projects get subsumed, additional
requirements tend to creep in, even if they're not actually "required."
--Paul Magwene
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