[Numpy-discussion] Plans for Numpy 1.4.0 and scipy 0.8.0

[Stéfan van der Walt]

2009/6/22 David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com>:
> My main motivation for an early numpy 1.4 is scipy 0.8.0. But if other
> people think numpy 1.4.0 as it is now is too 'weak', making scipy
> 0.8.0 compatible with numpy 1.3.0 is technically possible. Then we can
> talk about adding those features for numpy 1.4.0, and release it
> later.

I think there are enough changes for a 1.4 release.  It makes little
sense to put our effort into making SciPy compatible with an old
version of NumPy, rather than moving both packages forward.

Regards
Stéfan