[SciPy-User] Pylab - standard packages

[Almar Klein]

On 22 September 2012 11:56, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 September 2012 02:17, Almar Klein <a.klein at science-applied.nl>
> wrote:
> > Trying to get at the subtleties...  so what if IPython with notebook
> > feature* is a part of the base. So that every user with a pylab-compliant
> > distro can fire up a notebook. But, distros can (and will) ship
> additionally
> > an IDE (like IEP or Spyder) that does *not* have IPython or a
> notebook-like
> > interface, but these interfaces are still considered Pylab-compliant.
> That
> > does sound reasonable?
>
> I think this - roughly - has been my position all along. Whatever
> interface we mandate merely has to be included: distributions don't
> have to make it the only interface, or even the primary interface.
> Python(x,y) can keep promoting Spyder, and your own Pyzo can promote
> IEP. But Pylab tutorials will naturally be written for whatever
> interface is common to all distributions, whether that's a notebook or
> a REPL.
>
> A minor quibble over semantics: as I envisage it, it is a distribution
> that is Pylab compliant or not, not an interface. Within Pyzo, for
> instance, IEP can be an interface to Pylab, but it would not be a
> 'Pylab interface', because it's not part of the spec. Similarly for
> Spyder, IdleX or Reinteract. Even the >>> shell is an interface to
> Pylab if you can import the necessary packages.
>

That's how I see it too. Thanks for wording it more clearly. So I think
we're converging towards an agreement. I don't know enough about the
notebook to decide whether it should be included now or later. I go with
whatever you guys think is best.

  Almar
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