[SciPy-dev] Technology Previews and Sphinx Docstring Annotations

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Nathan Bell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Anne Archibald
> <aarchiba at physics.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>   
>> If people want to make the scikits option reasonable, I suggest,
>> instead of arguing on the mailing list, going out and getting things
>> set up so it really is easy to add packages. *Then* come back and tell
>> us how it's a better option than what we have now. In the meantime, we
>> can either go on with the approach we have - live with occasional API
>> breakage for new components of scipy - or spend an evening getting
>> scipy.preview set up.
>>
>>     
>
> I completely agree.  Scikits is not a viable incubator at the moment.
>
> IMO that someone is willing to maintain a submodule of SciPy is far
> more important than matters of API stability.
>   
Here, here....

> I'd argue that scipy.spatial should exist in SciPy 0.7 so people
> actually use the thing.  A disclaimer in the docstring is sufficient
> warning.  Those that ignore the warning are still better off than they
> would have been without the code in the first place.
>   
Again, well spoken...

-Travis