[SciPy-User] ANN: SciPy 0.11.0 release candidate 2

[Christoph Gohlke]

On 8/13/2012 11:30 AM, Ralf Gommers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am pleased to announce the availability of the second release
> candidate of SciPy 0.11.0. For this release many new features have been
> added, and over 120 tickets and pull requests have been closed. Also
> noteworthy is that the number of contributors for this release has risen
> to over 50. Some of the highlights are:
>
>    - A new module, sparse.csgraph, has been added which provides a
> number of common sparse graph algorithms.
>    - New unified interfaces to the existing optimization and root
> finding functions have been added.
>
> Sources and binaries can be found at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/scipy/0.11.0rc2/, release
> notes are copied below.
>
> For this release candidate all known issues (with the exception of one
> Qhull issue on Debian, s390x platform) have been solved. In the meantime
> also OS X 10.8 was released, this RC contains a few build fixes for that
> platform.
>
> If no more serious issues are reported, the final release will be in one
> week.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf


Hi Ralf,

test_qz_double_sort is now failing in all msvc9/MKL builds (Python 2.6 
to 3.2, 32 and 64 bit):


FAIL: test_qz_double_sort (test_decomp.TestQZ)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"X:\Python32\lib\site-packages\scipy\linalg\tests\test_decomp.py", line 
1728, in test_qz_double_sort
     [  0.    ,   0.    ,   0.    , -12.8217]]), 4)
   File "X:\Python32\lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line 
800, in assert_array_almost_equal
     header=('Arrays are not almost equal to %d decimals' % decimal))
   File "X:\Python32\lib\site-packages\numpy\testing\utils.py", line 
636, in assert_array_compare
     raise AssertionError(msg)
AssertionError:
Arrays are not almost equal to 4 decimals

(mismatch 62.5%)
  x: array([[-14.66007968, -27.25220511, -31.55732717, -29.0823765 ],
        [  0.        ,  30.23027809,  42.47668118,  52.55438253],
        [  0.        ,   0.        ,   0.71600413,  -2.77147791],
        [  0.        ,   0.        ,   0.        ,   2.50096525]])
  y: array([[  3.57864000e+01,  -8.09061000e+01,  -1.20629000e+01,
          -9.49800000e+00],
        [  0.00000000e+00,   2.76380000e+00,  -2.35050000e+00,...


Christoph