[SciPy-dev] Freeze Thursday at 5:00pm until further notice

Jonathan Taylor jonathan.taylor at utoronto.ca
Thu Nov 10 14:56:13 EST 2005


What about just putting scipy_core into a new directory.  I think that is
nearly equivelent functionally as having them in seperate repositories. 
Maybe I am wrong?

Jon.

On 11/10/2005, "Pearu Peterson" <pearu at scipy.org> wrote:

>
>
>On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Jonathan Taylor wrote:
>
>> If we go to trac, it would probabally be useful to have scipy and
>> scipy_core in the same repository.  If so, then 5:00 might be the best
>> time to put both in the same repository.  We would also get the benefit
>> of being able to svn mv ad svn cp files from scipy_core to scipy and
>> vice versa.  Maybe I am not understanding a good reason for their
>> seperation though?
>
>The separation is due the fact that newcore is a replacement for Numeric
>and not all people need full scipy.
>
>Ideally, when checking out scipy, one should get also scipy_core:
>And when checking out scipy_core, one should get only scipy_core.
>This was easy to handle with CVS but as I have understood not so with SVN.
>
>In addtion, one needs to have scipy_core installed before building
>scipy. I think this is the main reason for keeping scipy_core and
>scipy separate.
>
>On the other hand, we could move the contents of scipy/Lib/ directory
>to scipy_core/scipy and have separate setup.py files for scipy and
>scipy_core. But that would mean that only-scipy_core interested people
>would get full scipy sources from SVN (unless there are some SVN tricks
>to prevent that).
>
>Pearu
>
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