I think David Cournapeau's email to the -user list (included below)
brings up the general issue of whether and how and when we want to go
about deprecating the use of Numeric and numarray in MPL. Their
continued inclusion in the core of MPL increases complexity (thereby
slowing development and
On 4/4/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do we add deprecation warnings for the 0.90+1 release cycle and then
> stop building the numarray and numeric numerix backends at some point
> after that? When? Do we keep the "numerix" name or just switch
> everything to numpy?
I agree that it
On Apr 4, 2007, at 9:41 AM, John Hunter wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Do we add deprecation warnings for the 0.90+1 release cycle and then
>> stop building the numarray and numeric numerix backends at some point
>> after that? When? Do we keep the "numerix" name
John Hunter wrote:
[...]
> As for your specific points:
>
> * inside matplotlib we should just use numpy everywhere. We need to
> agree on some import convention. I'm happy with 'import numpy as nx'
> though this might be confusing for a while since people might confuse
> it with the numerix l
John Hunter wrote:
> * I suppose we should deprecate it for a release, but I'm inclined
> just to push the thing through quickly
+1
You can't do it too fast for me.
>* when we do the cleanup, we should replace all the 'from numerix
>import something' with 'import numpy as nx; nx.something'
On 4/5/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Hunter wrote:
> [...]
> > As for your specific points:
> >
> > * inside matplotlib we should just use numpy everywhere. We need to
> > agree on some import convention. I'm happy with 'import numpy as nx'
> > though this might be confusing
On 4/4/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to make one more release, I would like to have a few days
> notice to see if I can clear up at least one thing, and maybe a couple more.
OK, let's shoot for a release next week or the week after, however
long it takes for people to g
