A Monday 24 November 2008, David Cournapeau escrigué: > Jarrod Millman wrote: > > Now that scipy 0.7.0b1 has been tagged, I wanted to start planning > > for the NumPy 1.3.0: > > http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/milestone/1.3.0 > > For completeness, we were wondering with Jarrod if the main focus of > 1.3 could be python 2.6 compatibility (plus what is already in, of > course). This is mainly a concern on Mac OS X and Windows (numpy > seems to build and work OK on 2.6 on linux last time I tried). > > The rationale was that although python 2.6 is not really a must have > compared to 2.5 for most usage of numpy/scipy, since people are now > directed to python 2.6 on python.org for windows and mac os X > installs, getting it working on 2.6. ASAP would avoid too much > trouble for newcomers.
Not only newcomers, we all know people that likes to have the latest software in their machines even, as you said, 2.6 is not a big step forward in terms of new functionality. So +1 for having support for 2.6 ASAP. Cheers, -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion