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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:04:06AM -0600, Anders Logg wrote:

> > Seems like Numarray is also going to cease in favour of SciPy.
> 
> Yes, see http://numeric.scipy.org/.
> 
> It looks like the array interface is already included in the SciPy
> package that I have installed on my machine (Debian packages
> python2.4-scipy 0.3.2-8 and python2.4-scipy-core 0.3.2-4).
> 
> Perhaps I will try to update the next release of FFC (which might be
> 0.3.0) to use SciPy instead of Numeric. Any objections to this?

It's probably good if a switch to SciPy is coordinated with a similar
move in FIAT, or otherwise there would still be dependencies to
Numeric (and LinearAlgebra).

Rob, would it be much work to switch FIAT to SciPy from Numeric and
LinearAlgebra?

/Anders