On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Gael Varoquaux < gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 04:59:17PM -0500, Mark Wiebe wrote: > > but ultimately NumPy needs the ability to change its repr and other > > details like it in order to progress as a software project. > > You have to understand that numpy is the core layer on which people have > build pretty huge scientific codebases with fairly little money flowing > in to support. Any minor change to numpy cause turmoils in labs and is > delt by people (student or researchers) on their spare time. I am not > saying that there should not be any changes to numpy, just that the costs > and benefits of these changes need to be weighted carefully. Numpy is not > a young and agile project its a foundation library. > > Well, doc tests are just a losing proposition, no one should be using them for writing tests. It's not like this is a new discovery, doc tests have been known to be unstable for years. As to numpy being a settled project, I beg to differ. Without moving forward and routine maintenance numpy will quickly bitrot. I think it would only take a year or two before the decay began to show. Chuck
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