[SciPy-Dev] ANN: SciPy 0.10 beta 1

[Bruce Southey]

On 09/13/2011 11:29 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Bruce Southey <bsouthey at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bsouthey at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 09/12/2011 04:36 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I am pleased to announce the availability of the first beta
>>     release of SciPy 0.10.0. For this release over a 100 tickets and
>>     pull requests have been closed, and many new features have been
>>     added. Some of the highlights are:
>>
>>       - support for Bento as a build system for scipy
>>       - generalized and shift-invert eigenvalue problems in sparse.linalg
>>       - addition of discrete-time linear systems in the signal module
>>
>>     Sources and binaries can be found at
>>     https://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.10.0b1/,
>>     release notes are copied below.
>>     Binaries for Python 2.x are available, on Python 3 there are a
>>     few known problems that should be solved first. When they are, a
>>     second beta will follow.
>>
>>     Please try this release and report problems on the mailing list.
>>
>     The INSTALL.TXT and weave documentation still refers to svn and
>     not git.
>     Also, I do not know if the usage of 'svn' in the tools directory
>     of the developmental version are valid.
>
>
> The builds scripts under tools/ are outdated, I'm not sure if there's 
> still useful info in them.
>
>
>     I noticed these two usages of svn in the release version:
>     1) 'scipy/setup.py': 'config.make_svn_version_py()  # installs
>     __svn_version__.py'?
>     2) scipy/special/special_version.py
>
>
> Should probably both be removed.
>
>
>     The  __svn_version__.py was removed so 
>     scipy/special/special_version.py fails:
>     $ git log -p scipy/version.py
>     commit 28a5f5f0e03b7746a43ae31925806cbf8df958a8
>     Author: David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>
>     <mailto:cournape at gmail.com>
>     Date:   Sun May 10 06:57:17 2009 +0000
>     [snip]
>
>     With over a year and no complaints, perhaps we could just remove
>     these rather than fix scipy/special/special_version.py?
>     It is easy to fix but it has not changed since 2007 when it was
>     apparently created!
>
>     Can file a ticket if needed.
>
>
> Please do. And if anyone feels like writing a patch that makes "grin 
> svn" return zero results, that would be helpful.
>
> Ralf
>
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Done in ticket 1516
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/1516

Bruce
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