Alan, I agree now would be a good time to drop this. It has been deprecated for a long time now.
Andrew On Thursday 02 May 2013 09:34:42 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hi Andrew: > > Here is what we currently say in our release notes concerning > the Numeric/numpy question. > > "(5.9.6) We have deprecated support for the python Numeric array > extensions. Numeric is no longer maintained and users of Numeric are > advised to migrate to numpy. Numpy has been the standard for PLplot > for some time. If numpy is not present PLplot will now disable python > by default. If you still require Numeric support in the short term > then set USE_NUMERIC to ON in cmake. The PLplot support for Numeric > will be dropped in a future release." > > (Note, USE_NUMERIC no longer exists, but we still provide a > largely equivalent FORCE_NUMERIC option with a deprecation message > concerning that if the user turns it ON.) > > If we continue providing a FORCE_NUMERIC user option, that means there > is a PLplot maintenance issue now since Debian wheezy (and presumably > most other modern Linux distros) no longer carries Numeric (last > released in 2005) so it is difficult/impossible to test any changes in > our Numeric support. > > For example, (which motivated this post to plplot-devel) while > propagating the plshade* API changes to Python, I found myself with > the unpleasant choice of either changing > bindings/python/plplot.py.Numeric with absolutely no way of testing my > changes even for syntax errors or else leaving it alone which means it > won't work with the recent plshade* API changes if anybody ever tries > it since there is a lot of type checking going on with the arguments > to plshade*. (I opted to leave it alone.) > > Do you agree with me that it is now time to drop PLplot's support of > Numeric? If so, I would be willing to do that (by forcing > FORCE_NUMERIC to always be OFF rather than providing that as a user > option) and make an additional announcement about dropping support for > Numeric in the release notes. > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time > Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); > and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET > Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. > Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead > Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
