[SciPy-dev] The future of the scipy.sandbox and a reminder of upcoming doc-day

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Matthieu Brucher wrote:
>
>     AFAIK the current proposal is as follows
>
>     scipy.sparse
>         Will contain the sparse matrix classes and perhaps construction
>     functions (e.g. spdiags)
>
>     scipy.splinalg
>         New home for sparse linear algebra (i.e. anything that has a dense
>     analog in scipy.linalg)
>         Possible home for sparse construction functions (e.g. spkron)
>
>     splinalg.eigen
>         Sparse eigensolvers:
>             sandbox.lobpcg -> splinalg.eigen.lobpcg
>             sandbox.arpack -> splinalg.eigen.arpack
>
>             a function splinalg.eigen.eigs() should support a simplified
>     interface to ARPACK,
>             without exposing many ARPACK-specific parameters (allowing the
>     backend to be
>             changed in the future)
>
>     splinalg.isolve
>         Iterative solvers for linear systems (e.g. cg, gmres):
>             linalg.iterative -> splinalg.isolve
>
>     splinalg.dsolve
>         Direct solvers for linear systems (e.g. SuperLU):
>             scipy.linsolve -> splinalg.dsolve
>             scipy.linsolve.umfpack -> scikit
>
>
> Is there any concern about this ? If not, it may be time to make it 
> happen ?
Looks good to me.

-Travis