[Numpy-discussion] Patch for RPy to use NumPy uploaded to www.scipy.org

[Travis Oliphant]

I've added a patch to the Porting to NumPy page so that RPy uses NumPy 
instead of Numeric.  It would be very helpful for unification if these 
package authors would accept these patches.  NumPy is far enough along 
in development that I don't think there is any reason for new releases 
of packages to continue to support Numeric.

For numarray-support in packages the transition may take a little 
longer.   I know that some think that supporting multiple array packages 
may be a good idea.  I think that is a recipe for long-term headaches. 
We are moving to get the array interface into Python.  Until that 
happens (hopefully by Python 2.6), third-party code should write to 
NumPy.  You can use the attribute-based array interface if you are 
willing to alter that at some point in the future when the array 
interface is moved into Python.

-Travis