[Scipy-svn] r6536 - branches/0.8.x/doc/release

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Author: rgommers
Date: 2010-06-18 08:37:22 -0500 (Fri, 18 Jun 2010)
New Revision: 6536

Modified:
   branches/0.8.x/doc/release/0.8.0-notes.rst
Log:
DOC: Update release notes with removed and deprecated code in scipy.io.

Modified: branches/0.8.x/doc/release/0.8.0-notes.rst
===================================================================
--- branches/0.8.x/doc/release/0.8.0-notes.rst	2010-06-18 13:12:05 UTC (rev 6535)
+++ branches/0.8.x/doc/release/0.8.0-notes.rst	2010-06-18 13:37:22 UTC (rev 6536)
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
 * Passing the coefficients of a polynomial as the argument `f0` to
   `signal.chirp` is deprecated.  Use the function `signal.sweep_poly`
   instead.
+* The `io.recaster` module has been deprecated and will be removed in 0.9.0.
 
 New features
 ============
@@ -218,4 +219,19 @@
 
 The module `scipy.misc.limits` was removed.
 
+scipy.io
+--------
 
+The IO code in both NumPy and SciPy is being extensively
+reworked. NumPy will be where basic code for reading and writing NumPy
+arrays is located, while SciPy will house file readers and writers for
+various data formats (data, audio, video, images, matlab, etc.).
+
+Several functions in ``scipy.io`` are removed in the 0.8.0 release including:
+``npfile``, ``save``, ``load``, ``create_module``, ``create_shelf``,
+``objload``, ``objsave``, ``fopen``, ``read_array``, ``write_array``,
+``fread``, ``fwrite``, ``bswap``, ``packbits``, ``unpackbits``, and
+``convert_objectarray``.  Some of these functions have been replaced by NumPy's
+raw reading and writing capabilities, memory-mapping capabilities, or array
+methods.  Others have been moved from SciPy to NumPy, since basic array reading
+and writing capability is now handled by NumPy.