[Sugar-devel] sugar-pippy dependencies

[Walter Bender]

We use numpy in Measure for array support and the fft library. We used
it in Turtle Art with Sensors for similar reasons.

-walter

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 12:36 +0000, Aleksey Lim escribió:
>>> pygame and numpy are parts of Sugar Platform[1], at least for 0.84,
>>> so, the right question is should these pakcages be a part of SP-0.86
>>> I guess +1 for both, since we have honey activities that are depend on
>>> these packages.
>>
>> In Sugar shell 0.82, the only thing that numpy was providing was a bit
>> matrix.  In 0.82, we replaced it with faster and lighter C code in
>> sugar-base, and it was a big performance win.
>>
>> I suspect the #1 usecase for numpy is to compensate for lack of good
>> array support in Python.
>>
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> 1) are there lighter-weight alternatives for the most popular uses of
>> numpy?
>>
>> 1) how many of the existing activities actually depend on numpy?
>
> A quick repo query gives me pippy and sugar-speak in the fedora repo.
>
> Peter
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