[SciPy-dev] default matlab file format

[Jarrod Millman]

I think that the savemat function should default to version 5 rather than 4:
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/browser/trunk/scipy/io/matlab/mio.py

I know that there has been an increasing sense that changing the API
should be done via deprecation warnings; but, in this particular case,
it seems that it would be much more useful to end users to change the
behavior without a deprecation.  I seriously doubt that there are many
(if any) Matlab users with such old versions of Matlab that they can't
read version 5 files.  What do other people think?  Does anyone have a
need for keeping version 4 as the default format for saving Matlab
files?

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Jarrod Millman
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