[SciPy-dev] Package organization

[Fernando Perez]

Pearu Peterson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Fernando Perez wrote:

>>This would then give us the following structure:
>>
>>1.  Scipy_core: the new Numeric/numarray package, which includes basic FFT,
...

>>2.  Scipy 'full': depends on (1), and exposes all the other scipy names:
...

> This is pretty much the current structure of newcore and newscipy, even of 
> old scipy and scipy_core.

Yes, I know.  I should have said so, I just wanted it to be explicit for the 
sake of completeness.  The only minor difference is that I was considering the 
possibility of moving some of today's 'full scipy' into toolkits, but that 
would be a decision for later.

> Ok, that's a new bit, though it remainds me the scipy.sandbox package in 
> newscipy. May be it's a matter of naming convention.

Well, in my eye sandbox carries a connotation of 'experimental, staging area'. 
  That's not what I think of the toolkits as.  I see those as standalone, 
fully released packages which build upon scipy's core functionality for 
specialized tasks.  I think the sandbox can remain there, but it serves a 
different purpose than the toolkits, at least in my mind.

Cheers,

f