Upgrade woes: Numeric, gnuplot, and Python 2.4

[John Machin]

Jive wrote:
> Here's my sitch:
>
> I use gnuplot.py at work, platform Win32.  I want to upgrade to
Python 2.4.
> Gnuplot.py uses extension module Numeric.  Numeric is now
"unsupported."
> The documentation says "If you are new to Numerical Python, please
use
> Numarray.".  It's not that easy, dangit.  The download page for numpy
does
> not contain a 2.4 version of Numeric, and I suspect they do not
intend to
> release one, because there IS a 2.4 version of Numarray.
>
> So here are my choices:
>
> 1) Switch from gnuplot.py to some other plotting package.
> 2) Convince, bribe, or cajole someone to implement gnuplot.py using
> Numarray.
> 3) Hack on gnuplot.py myself.  (Learning curve alert!)
> 4) Buy a copy of the VC++ 7.1 and port Numeric myself. (I still don't
know
> what to buy from Mr. Gates -- VC++ .net Standard?)
> 5) Do something else I haven't thought of.
>
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Jive "I speet on backwards incompatibility" Dadson

Why do you want to "upgrade to 2.4"? What do you mean by "upgrade to
2.4"?

Choice (5a) Install Python 2.4 and use that for whatever while
continuing to use 2.3 for gnuplot.
Choice (5b) Ask politely of the Numeric camp when/if they will make a
2.4-compatible Windows release.
Choice (5c) Ask politely of the Python community if anyone else is
contemplating making a 2.4 Windows distribution of Numeric.
Choice (5d) Read replies to your fulminations in another thread -- in
particular the one that says you need no truck with Mr Gates; in fact
you can use free non-MS compilers to make Python extensions for
Windows.