[SciPy-user] nd_image rename

[Sebastian Haase]

Hi,
I just noticed that nd_image is going to be named scipy.image.
My concern is that that might remind to much of jpg,bmp,tiff,... image 
files...
Also "image" sounds very 2d ! like 'picture' ;-)
I thought that Peter Verveer's nd_image name took nicely care of both of 
these concerns...
(As a reminder: Peter's package contains lot's of generic ND filtering 
and some nice segmentation and morphology routines:
Multi-dimensional image processing
[http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numarray/numarray-1.5.html/module-numarray.ndimage.html])

Did I miss the beginning of this thread ?

Just my 2 cents.

- Sebastian Haase



Travis Oliphant wrote:
> Ed Schofield wrote:
> 
>> Travis Oliphant wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Ed Schofield wrote:
>>>  
>>>    
>>>
>>>> I could try to make a new SciPy release this weekend.
>>>>
>>>> Before then, though, I suggest we change the package name of nd_image. 
>>>>    
>>>>      
>>>>
>>> Probably the right thing to do, especially as we improve it.  Right now 
>>> it's just a copy of nd_image from numarray (thus the name).  
>>>
>>> Anybody who wants to make the necessary name changes is welcome.
>>>  
>>>    
>>>
>> Done it.  I've renamed the package at the Python level; the C module is
>> still available to Python as _nd_image, with the leading underscore etc.
>>
>> Is the nd_image package still being maintained in numarray, or is SciPy
>> now its official home? :)
>>  
>>
> Peter, the original author, has said (for reasons that were not entirely 
> clear) that he will not be supporting  the numpy version (or eventually 
> the numarray version, either --- I think he's planning on writing some 
> other library-based solution). 
> 
> So, what we have in SciPy is "the official" home for the numpy version 
> of his package. 
> 
> -Travis
> 
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