[SciPy-dev] Matlab io bug; request for advice

[Matthew Brett]

One more question.

> I've put the deprecation warning into SVN.  I will put current SVN
> into 7.1, and intend to change the behavior for 0.8 as suggested.

I noticed while I was working on this, that the default 1D shape for
matlab 4 files was a row vector, and for matlab 5 was a column vector.

Possibilities:

a) Change matlab 4 behavior to be as for matlab 5 (1d->column), thus
possibly causing confusion to the (?rather few) matlab 4 users.  Who
will then be switched back to what they were expecting - row - for
0.8. - ?
b) Leave as is, with matlab 4 writing row vectors and matlab 5 writing
column vectors?  In due course (0.8) they will both be writing row
vectors.

I'm tempted by b).  That's how it is as of current SVN.

Any thoughts?

Matthew