Sven Schreiber wrote: > So, to put it "pointedly" (if that's the right word...?): > Numpy should not get small functions from scipy -> because the size of > scipy doesn't matter -> because scipy's modules will be installable as > add-ons separately (and because there will be ready-to-use installers); > however, nobody knows how to actually do that in practice ?
Rather, to put it accurately, numpy should not get large chunks of scipy functionality that require FORTRAN dependencies for reasons that should be obvious from that description. scipy.stats.distributions is just such a chunk. The ancillary point is that I think that, for those who do find the largeness and difficult-to-installness of scipy onerous, the best path forward is to work on the build process of scipy. And it will take *work* not wishes nor complaints nor <irony/> tags. And honestly, the more I see the latter, the less motivated I am to bother with the former. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
