[Numpy-discussion] Time for beta1 of NumPy 1.0 (fwd) (original) (raw)

Paul Barrett pebarrett at gmail.com
Fri Jun 30 09:52:51 EDT 2006

On 6/30/06, Louis Cordier <lcordier at point45.com> wrote:

> While it is hard to read too much into numbers, this tells me that there > are about 10,000 current users of Numeric/Numarray who have not even > tried NumPy. In fact, Numarray downloads of 1.5.1 went up > significantly from its earlier releases. Why is that? It could be > that many of the downloads are "casual" users who need it for some other > application (in which case they wouldn't feel inclined to try NumPy). Secondary dependency of other projects maybe ? http://www.google.com/search?q=requires+Numeric+python My money is on Spambayes... On the other hand ;) isn't small numbers a good thing, thus the people using NumPy over Numeric/numarray knows that some things in NumPy might still change and thus their code as well. I'll risk to say their projects are probably also still under active development. So now would probably be the best time to make these type of changes. Stated differently, how would we like NumPy to function 2 years from now ? With float64's or with int's ? Then we should rather change it now. Then again where are NumPy in a crossing the chasm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrossingtheChasm) sense of way, visionary or pragmatist ? Just a few random thoughts. Regards, Louis. -- Louis Cordier <lcordier at point45.com> cell: +27721472305 Point45 Entertainment (Pty) Ltd. http://www.point45.org

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+1 for float64

If we want to make Numpy the premier numerical analysis environment, then let's get it right. I've been bitten too many times by IDL's float32 default and Numeric's/Numarray's int32. If backward compatibility is the most important requirement then there would be no reason to write Numpy. There, I've said it.

-- Paul

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