Scipy 1.0 released

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2017-October/037357.html

by ngoldbaum • 9 years ago

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oddeyed• 9 years ago

It's really momentous that at LAST there is a Windows binary distribution available on PyPI. `pip install scipy numpy matplotlib` finally just works when you install Python on Windows.

dr_zoidberg• 9 years ago

For years I used Gohlkes installers/wheels[0] to install a great deal of libs on windows easily, SciPy amongst them. For a few packages, it still is the best alternative.

[0] http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

fredley2• 9 years ago

It's still a bit scary to me that one of the lynchpins of Python Data Processing remains, to some extent, to be this page.

ipunchghosts• 9 years ago

I think Gohlkes should be rewarded for his work. I attribute his efforts to save hours on mine. Thank you for all you've done.

mynewtb• 9 years ago

I wish he would let people help mirror them. Instead the links are all obfuscated and you cannot automate downloads which complicates installation.

drwu• 9 years ago

Finally I can uninstall `miniconda` and use the official python+pip.

Redoubts• 9 years ago

What’s wrong with anaconda? It’s a good distribution for the science stack.

roystonvassey• 9 years ago

Yes, the number of times I've run to BLAS/Lapack errors on Windows with Python were countless. I'm glad to see this has been fixed though I moved to Unix OSes a few years back.

make3• 9 years ago

could've installed anaconda though

cs702• 9 years ago

Congratulations!

Among many others, AI researchers all over the planet owe a debt of gratitude to these guys. Python dominates in AI research, and deep learning in particular, in part because it has a wealth of libraries like Scipy.

So, THANK YOU!

wiremine• 9 years ago

Many of us are a bit perfectionist, and therefore are reluctant to call something "1.0" because it may imply that it's "finished" or "we are 100% happy with it".

I always love to see this attitude/approach in an open source project, especially in such a mature one like Scipy. Kudos to the team!

kgwgk• 9 years ago

They could adapt TeX versioning scheme (latest release is 3.14159265).

jordigh• 9 years ago

I've also seen a similar scheme on this lib. Each release just keeps adding a nine. They're at version 0.999999999 now:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/html5lib

dangerbird2• 9 years ago

So by adding a digit each version, it's technically using a unary numeral system.

nurbl• 9 years ago

Scipy+numpy made it possible for me to mostly stop using the various weird, usually proprietary and often highly specialized data analysis applications that are entrenched in the scientific community, and work with a nice, general purpose programming language instead. It was wonderful!

This is close to a decade ago, it kind of blows my mind that only now scipy 1.0 is released. Not that it matters, I'm still a user, thanks team scipy!

fredley2• 9 years ago

Having spent many years writing arcane integration layers to sit between user-facing services and the weird, usually proprietary and often highly specialized data analysis applications that were being used to do data processing, the ability to use the same language for everything saves years of time, effort and complexity.

thearn4• 9 years ago

Agreed, many congrats due to the Scipy team! Their library was one of several that helped me get away from MATLAB post graduate school.

fdej• 9 years ago

Lots of related projects getting that long overdue major version number now. SymPy 1.0 was released last year and I released mpmath 1.0 less than a month ago, both projects 10 years old. SciPy's 16 years is a notch more impressive, though. Congratulations, and thanks to the SciPy developers for their hard work!

davesque2• 9 years ago

Scipy and numpy are both awesome. But I've always wondered what causes so many widely used projects to hold off for so long on the 1.0 release?

Sukram21• 9 years ago

Probably this:

Many of us are a bit perfectionist, and therefore are reluctant to call something "1.0" because it may imply that it's "finished" or "we are 100% happy with it". This is normal for many open source projects, however that doesn't make it right. (from the post)

davesque2• 9 years ago

Didn't catch that, thanks.

Scipy 1.0 released

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