Re: [Visualpython-users] Python 2.5

[Arthur S. <ajs...@op...>]

On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 16:14 -0600, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> Just to try to keep the record straight: Isn't it the case that fink 
> touches ONLY its own directory, /sw? I don't see how it can "corrupt" 
> the system.

Also to keep the record straight - there is *no* incompatibility (of
which I am aware) between Python2.5 and VPython built with either
Numeric or numarray.

The issue regarding numpy compatibility is significant since numpy is
becoming the Python standard for multi-dimensional array processing, so
that, for example, the lives of educational projects like courses such
as:

http://www.physics.cornell.edu/sethna/teaching/ComputationalMethods/index.html

which use scipy (in which numpy is core) and which also use VPython are
becoming more complicated than it might be.

But to maintain perspective - the numpy issue is not an immediate
crisis, provided that the maintainers of the Windows distro, the Debian
distro, the fink distro, etc. proceed to make binary distributions
against Python2.5 available.  So that maybe the short-term focus should
be shifted there.  I am concerned about the perception regarding VPython
should there be a significant delay in making Python2.5 binaries
available, now that Python2.5 is itself final.

I will see if I can figure out who might be appropriate to contact to
urge that the ubuntu (debian based) distribution make a Python2.5
package available.

Bruce - 

who has been doing the Windows distro??

Mac - don't know.

Art