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[Matthew Knepley <knepley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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?

  Actually, I think this would be a waste of time. At the last SciPy conference,
Travis announced he was submitting a PEP to try and get Numeric 3.0 directly
into the core. I think this is likely. Also, it is a separate package from
SciPy, which is quite large.

       Matt
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