Andrzej, Since you're now maintaining xlrd and xlwt, could you also grab my python2-xlutils package? python-xlutils should be deleted in the process. I had left it as a placeholder.
-Aaron DeVore On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Andrzej Giniewicz <ggi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > just wanted to let you know about my plan of moving Pandas to community, > so they don't interfere with plans of other TUs or AUR maintainers. > > Pandas is popular package (approximately 50 votes for bot python 2 and > python 3 version in AUR[1,2]) and is one of the basic packages for doing > science in Python, it is vital part of so called "SciPy Stack"[3] (and > actually last missing piece). I planned to do it lot earlier, but there > were some remaining issues that were fixed by 0.14.0 release - most > important finally official support for current release of Python 3.4[4]. > > Pandas has very few dependencies, but a lot of recommended and optional > dependencies, all of which provide important pieces of functionality, to > make the experience complete. That's why I will move in and maintain all > it's dependencies as well, unless someone has anything against it. This > includes: > > - bottleneck library [5,6] > - statsmodels library [7,8] > - patsy library [9,10] > - set of libraries to read and write Excel files [11,12,13,14,15,16] > > The order of moving those packages will be following: > > - bottleneck because it is recommended dependency providing speed to > lots of operations > - libraries to deal with Excel, because it improves usability of library > and is direct dependency > - Pandas itself > - Patsy, because it is dependency of statsmodels > - statsmodels, because pandas is its dependency, and it is optdependency > of pandas - so it comes last > - Pandas again, but with statsmodels as optdepends and tests enabled > > I hope to push one update every few days. I will let the related > packages settle in community for day or two and then push next ones, > staring on 4'th June, hopefully finish with those before 17'th - it > takes some time, mostly due to limited time I can spend of this > particular move. > > Cheers, > Andrzej. > > [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pandas/ > [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pandas/ > [3]: http://www.scipy.org/stackspec.html > [4]: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html > [5]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-bottleneck/ > [6]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-bottleneck/ > [7]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-statsmodels/ > [8]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-statsmodels/ > [9]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-patsy/ > [10]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-patsy/ > [11]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-openpyxl/ > [12]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-openpyxl/ > [13]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-xlwt/ > [14]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-xlwt/ > [15]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-xlrd/ > [16]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-xlrd/ > >