[SciPy-dev] Plea for help

[Christopher Hanley]

Hi,

I'd like to respectfully request that we move any discussion of what  
to do with the numpy.char module to the numpy list.

I'm a little concerned about some of the assumptions that are being  
made about the number of users of the module.  I would also like to  
better understand the reasons for wanting to dump it.  Let me be  
clear.  I'm not opposed to change.  However breaking other people's  
code just for the sake of change seems like a poor reason and a mean  
thing to do to our customers.

Thank you for your time and help,
Chris


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Christopher Hanley
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Space Telescope Science Institute
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On Aug 20, 2009, at 1:35 AM, Robert Kern wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 20:03, David  
> Goldsmith<d_l_goldsmith at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'm going to take it a step further: "breakage" is always the  
>> deterrent to change, and yet "change we must" (i.e., "adapt or  
>> die").  It's certainly not without precedent - even within Numpy, I  
>> believe - for things (though perhaps not whole namespaces) to be  
>> deemed "to-be-deprecated," have a warning to this effect  
>> established in one x.[even #].0 release, and then be removed by the  
>> x.[even # + 2 or + 4].0 release.  How has deprecation in Numpy  
>> worked in the past - by dictum, vote, or consensus?
>
> Consensus or dictum without major objection. Voting is pointless
> except to inform one of those.
>
> -- 
> Robert Kern
>
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> enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
> though it had an underlying truth."
>  -- Umberto Eco
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