[SciPy-User] ANN: Scipy 0.16.0 release

[Ralf Gommers]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Slavin, Jonathan <jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> ​I'm wondering why scipy, such a solid and widely used package, uses such
> a low version number.​  If I didn't know better, I'd be reluctant to use a
> package with a version of 0.16.  Numpy is at 1.6.2, and matplotlib is
> nearly at 2.0.  Generally packages that are ready for general use are at
> least 1.0.  It just seems incongruous.
>

Good question. We have at least been thinking about what it means for Scipy
to become 1.0:
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/compare/master...rgommers:roadmap

Probably we should start connecting that to a date and descoping a few
items from that list, so that we'll never reach 0.20.....

Ralf



>
> Regards,
> Jon
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:39 PM, <scipy-user-request at scipy.org> wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:39:54 +0200
>> From: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [SciPy-User] ANN: Scipy 0.16.0 release
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> On behalf of the Scipy development team I'm pleased to announce the
>> availability of Scipy 0.16.0. This release contains some exciting new
>> features (see release notes below) and more than half a years' worth of
>> maintenance work. 93 people contributed to this release.
>>
>> This release requires Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2-3.4 and NumPy 1.6.2 or
>> greater. Sources, binaries and release notes can be found at
>> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/releases/tag/v0.16.0
>>
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> Ralf
>>
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