[SciPy-dev] Deprecating current scipy.stats.var API for 0.7 ?

[David Cournapeau]

Hi,

   This issue keeps coming up, and I would like to start solving it. 
scipy.stats.var, mean and other basic functions do not have the same API 
as numpy (axis = 0 vs None, etc...). What about keeping them for now, 
but deprecating them in 0.7 + putting funcs which are the same as numpy 
with a different name, and removing the old ones in 0.8 ?

cheers,

David