[SciPy-dev] arpack wrapper status

[Ondrej Certik]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Nathan Bell <wnbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Aric Hagberg <hagberg at lanl.gov> wrote:
>>
>> I don't have MILESTONE_MODIFY privileges on the wiki - here is
>> some text for the release notes:
>>
>> == New sparse eigensolver ==
>>
>> A new wrapper to the ARPACK eigensolver provides functions to compute
>> a few eigenvalues and eigenvectors of general n by n sparse matrices.
>>
>> http://scipy.org/scipy/scipy/browser/trunk/scipy/sparse/linalg/eigen/arpack
>>
>
> Done:
> http://scipy.org/scipy/scipy/milestone/0.7.0

Note, that since arpack was recently removed from Debian main due to
it's non-free license, scipy should be able to configure without
arpack, so that it can remain in main.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497724

Ondrej