[SciPy-dev] Timetable for 0.5.3 release?

[Ondrej Certik]

> I realize that releases are somewhat unimportant for much of the SciPy
> audience, since they'll go straight for the SVN version anyway.
> However, it's nice to tell casual users that they can apt-get XYZ and
> try your software.  Personally, my code depends critically on the
> improvements to scipy.sparse made shortly after the last release, so
> I'm anxious to push this along.


I think the releases are very important, at least I prefer to install
scipy using apt-get and use it as a nice library. The svn should
rather serve for implementing and testing new features imho.

Ondrej