On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Gael Varoquaux apparently wrote: > I really thing numpy should be as thin as possible, so > that you can really say that it is only an array > manipulation package. This will also make it easier to > sell as a core package for developpers who do not care > about "calculator" features.
I'm a user rather than a developer, but I wonder: is this true? 1. Even as a user, I agree that what I really want from NumPy is a core array manipulation package (including matrices). BUT as long as this is the core of NumPy, will a developer care if other features are available? 2. Even if the answer to 1. is yes, could the build/installation process include an option not to build/install anything but the core array functionality? 3. It seems to me that pushing things out into SciPy remains a problem: a basic NumPy is easy to build on any platform, but SciPy still seems to generate many questions. 4. One reason this keeps coming up is that he NumPy/SciPy split is rather too crude. If the split were instead something like NumPy/SciPyBasic/SciPyFull/SciPyFull+Kits where SciPyBasic contained only pure Python code (no extensions), perhaps the desired location would be more obvious and some of this recurrent discussion would go away. fwiw, Alan Isaac _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
