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From: olipt at mayo.edu (Travis Oliphant)
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:42:18 -0500
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Subject: Bug or Feature?
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In-Reply-To: <m3wvyxgtwr.fsf@pcrm.win.tue.nl>
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References: <37208E69.4B022E0C@mediaone.net> <7fr3eg$bqr@world1.bellatlantic.net> <m3ogkbx0s8.fsf@pcrm.win.tue.nl> <7g4jkg$llc@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> <m3wvyxgtwr.fsf@pcrm.win.tue.nl>
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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904280837320.1836-100000@us2.mayo.edu>
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On 28 Apr 1999, Stephan Houben wrote:
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> nascheme at ucalgary.ca (Neil Schemenauer) writes:
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> > I think the Numeric array should be added as a standard module.
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> > This is on the Python TODO list. I may do it myself it I get
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> > time. I don't know how much of Numeric should be added. Any
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> > comments?
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> That would be cool.
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Here, here.
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> As you see, the "Numerical" part is by far the biggest, and if you make it
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> a standard part of Python, you increase the size of the standard distribution
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> by quite much. So that might be a reason not to do it.
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> On the other hand, the biggest parts of "Numeric" are the blas lite and the
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> lapack lite, which together make up 1503K. So perhaps you could rely on
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> a preinsatalled BLAS and LAPACK, just as the standard Python distribution
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> relies on the readline library.
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Having the Numeric extensions as part of the core would be excellent. I'd
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be interested to here from knowledgeable people (people who decide these
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things, i.e. Guido) what the arguments against doing so are.
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Not including blas and lapack in the core is fine as long as the user is
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informed of the need to get BLAS and LAPACK on their machine. It would be
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nice if you could count on someone using Numeric to have a full
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implementation of BLAS and LAPACK on their machine. Quite a few other
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libraries out there that would be nice extensions to Numeric depend on
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subroutines in those libraries.
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Travis Oliphant
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