[Numpy-discussion] Current thoughts on future directions
Michiel Jan Laurens de Hoon
mdehoon at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Wed Mar 9 23:30:15 EST 2005
Travis Oliphant wrote:
> 1) There will be a scipy_core package which will be essentially what
> Numeric has always been (plus a few easy to install extras already in
> current scipy_core). It will likely contain the functionality of (the
> names and placements will be similar to current scipy_core).
> Numeric3 (actually called ndarray or narray or numstar or numerix or
> something....)
> fft (based on c-only code -- no fortran dependency)
> linalg (a lite version -- no fortran or ATLAS dependency)
> stats (a lite version --- no fortran dependency)
> special (only c-code --- no fortran dependency)
That would be great! If it can be installed as easily as Numerical
Python (and I have no reason to believe it won't be), I will certainly
point users to this package instead of the older Numerical Python. I'd
be happy to help out here, but I guess most of this code is working fine
already.
> 2) The rest of scipy will be a package (or a series of packages) of
> algorithms. We will not try to do plotting as part of scipy. The
> current plotting in scipy will be supported for a time, but users will
> be weaned off to other packages: matplotlib, pygist (for xplt -- and I
> will work to get any improvements for xplt into pygist itself),
> gnuplot, etc.
Let me know which improvements from xplt you want to include into
pygist. It might also be a good idea to move the pygist web pages to
scipy.org.
--Michiel.
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