[SciPy-Dev] ANN: SciPy 0.12.0 release candidate 1

[Christoph Gohlke]

On 4/6/2013 3:22 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com
> <mailto:ralf.gommers at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     I am pleased to announce the availability of the first release
>     candidate of SciPy 0.12.0. This is shaping up to be another solid
>     release, with some cool new features (see highlights below) and a
>     large amount of bug fixes and maintenance work under the hood. The
>     number of contributors also keeps rising steadily, we're at 74 so
>     far for this release.
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>     Sources and binaries can be found at
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.12.0rc1/,
>     release notes are copied below.
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>     Please try this release and report any problems on the mailing list.
>     If no issues are found, the final release will be in one week.
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> Hi, I'm about to cut the final release but am not really sure about how
> heavily the beta and RC were tested. Normally there are always a few
> Windows-specific issues for example, this time nothing. A few "I tested
> this on platform X and it looks good" responses would reassure me.
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> Thanks,
> Ralf
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Looks good. It builds and tests OK on Windows with msvc, numpy-MKL 
1.7.1rc, Python 2.6 to 3.3, 32 and 64 bit.

Occasionally/rarely test_singular fails but that is known 
(http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/1735).

Christoph