Re: Upgrading NumPy and friends

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus@gmail.com> skribis:

> I would like to open a conversation on upgrading NumPy, Pandas, Numba
> and SciPY.

Cc’ing members of the Python team, to make sure the right people are in
the loop.

> It would be reasonable to refresh that core scientific packages for
> Python after merging python-team which is nearly finished building.

[...]

> I've started noticing that more and more projects require a fresh
> version of NumPy during Astro upgrade monthly, sometimes it's captured
> on sanity check phase, but most of the time the package is just not work
> especially when it depends on python-astropy which heavily depends on
> NumPy.
>
> Does anyone work on that packages or would be interested in taking the
> flag?

I’m not a Python person, but I know it’s important work, and often
difficult.

Perhaps it would make sense for interested people, in particular in the
‘python’ team, to work closely together on that and maybe have IRC or
audioconf meetings to coordinate?

My 2¢,
Ludo’.