Hi eveyone,
I see the last main roadblock to adopting NumPy, lack of free
documentation, is no longer an issue. There is plenty of documentation
to be found here: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/ , including Travis
Oliphant's book. So what to do with Numeric. I suggest we freeze any
further support for Numeric. Leave what we have in place in Pygame, but
not update it. Any new unit tests or examples will use NumPy
exclusively. And Numeric support will be dropped altogether for Python
3.0. It's unlikely Numeric will be available for Python 2.6 on Windows,
though someone is welcome to try.
If no more effort is given to Numeric then further work can be
concentrated on NumPy. I would suggest optimizing surfarray and sndarray
as needed, maybe even adding C code in places. For the most part though
we continue using the Python code written by Marcus von Appen. So what
do you think?
Lenard
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