#9808: Upgrade numpy to 1.4.1 and scipy to 0.8
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Reporter: maldun | Owner: maldun
Type: task | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: packages | Keywords: numpy, scipy
Author: Stefan Reiterer | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by kcrisman):
I forgot about the networkx change, thanks for the reminder.
> > > * numpy-1.5.0 has an issues with cython that will be solved in 1.5.1
- shame because it also fixes linux ppc and alpha.
> >
> > Hmm, dropping an official thing is not so good. I think that one
would want to post to the list about this - more likely wait for 1.5.1?
Or is the fix for this easily backported?
> I'm personally in favor of keeping Sage building on less regular
systems, as it often indicates problems. The Solaris port has found
endless bugs in Sage - some of which have even according to William been
serious.
>
> I have an old IBM RS/6000 7025 F50 (Power PC) which I was setting up AIX
on the other day. I contemlated whether I should put Linux on it too for
testing Sage. But when I read Sage's README.txt, PowerPC was only
supported on OS X, not Linux. So I did not bother. But the machine has
space for 18 disk drives, so I could always add it!!
Why not? I've been trying to figure out how to get a thumb drive to boot
my PPC machine on Ubuntu (and possibly other distros) but it turns out
it's devilishly hard to get that to work, and I haven't had time to do it.
I can't find an easy virtualization option either (neither xen nor
anything else seem to really be particularly easy, if they even still work
with such an old machine...)
> And another thing: If we aren't able to merge numpy and scipy to 4.6. in
time, why don't we provide the packages as optional or experimental?
Because they work on most systems, and it would be a waste to just throw
them away.
Certainly one could do this, but even that would require a positive review
from someone. You might have to ask on the list about this - I've never
heard of having an upgrade to a normal package as only optional.
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