Retiring ScientificPython

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 14 August 2015 at 18:31, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> I'm going to be retiring the ScientificPython package in F23+ before F23 Beta
> due to not being compatible with Numpy >= 1.9 and no upstream
> resources/commitment to fix it.  See
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1239351
>
> This appears to affect:
>
> scitools for wrap2callable() (which already wanted ScientificPython >= 2.9.1
> which isn't in Fedora)
>
> python-fiat - although the import Scientific lines in functional.py appear to
> be commented out, so I don't really know what is going on here.


python-fiat is a component of the Fenics stack. There was an effort to
bring it all into Fedora:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=fenics

but I stopped using and needing it and didn't have time to push it
further forward. Given that the only remaining package maintainer is
Fabian Abfolter (who seems largely inactive with regards to this
package and Fenics), I'd suggest it's worth retiring python-fiat
unless someone steps up to finish bringing the Fenics stack into
Fedora.

Cheers,
Jonathan