Hi Ghislain,
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 09:59:28AM +0000, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
>
> Not too surprising considering that the numpy.oldnumeric modules was removed
> since Numpy 1.9 [1], so it has been broken for a long time without people
> noticing.
Thanks for your research into this.
> We could port the code base to the current Numpy API, but I am not sure
> whether we will have enough of a user-base to validate it (see above) and
> how much effort it will take. Besides, the software did not receive updates
> for years so we would probably be maintaining this effort on our own.
As far as I understood Steffen upstream is not dead but does not that
frequent releases.
> Based on this 2 comments, one might ask whether it is worth maintaining a
> package for this piece of software.
Steffen, could you please comment on this?
I admit, I'm personally not that motivated saving non-free software.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> [1] https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/routines.oldnumeric.html
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