Bug or Feature?

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Stephan Houben writes:
>As you see, the "Numerical" part is by far the biggest, and if you make it
>a standard part of Python, you increase the size of the standard distribution
>by quite much. So that might be a reason not to do it.

	I think the idea is to include only the basic NumPy types
(multiarray and whatever the rest are).  BLAS, LAPACK, or whatever,
would still be add-ons.  The benefit is that installing numeric code
wouldn't require recompiling the Python binary; they'd be simple
modules.  As a side benefit, other programs could then count on having
the multiarray type.

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