[pygame] The future of Numeric

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi eveyone,

I see the last main roadblock to adopting NumPy, lack of free 
documentation, is no longer an issue. There is plenty of documentation 
to be found here: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/ , including Travis 
Oliphant's book. So what to do with Numeric. I suggest we freeze any 
further support for Numeric. Leave what we have in place in Pygame, but 
not update it. Any new unit tests or examples will use NumPy 
exclusively. And Numeric support will be dropped altogether for Python 
3.0. It's unlikely Numeric will be available for Python 2.6 on Windows, 
though someone is welcome to try.

If no more effort is given to Numeric then further work can be 
concentrated on NumPy. I would suggest optimizing surfarray and sndarray 
as needed, maybe even adding C code in places. For the most part though 
we continue using the Python code written by Marcus von Appen. So what 
do you think?

Lenard

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Lenard Lindstrom
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