[Numpy-discussion] big-bangs versus incremental improvements (was: Re: SciPy 2014 BoF NumPy Participation)

[Robert Kern]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Todd <toddrjen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5 Jun 2014 14:28, "David Cournapeau" <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There has been discussions about integrating numpy a long time ago (can't
>> find a reference right now), and the consensus was that this was possible in
>> its current shape nor advisable. The situation has not changed.
>
> I am not suggesting merging all of numpy, only ndarray and dtype (which I
> know is a huge job itself).  And perhaps not even all of what us currently
> included in those, some methods could be split out to their own functions.

That is what was discussed and rejected in favor of putting the
enhanced buffer protocol into the language.

-- 
Robert Kern