I will second the request for SciPy. In addition to SciPy, the python package "numpy" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy) are pre-requisites for some astronomy-specific python modules (eg PyFITS, PyRAF; http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware). Regards, Chris Hunter On Tue, 23 May 2006, Andy Buckley wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know if there is a formal procedure to request that packages be > supported by SL, but it would be *extremely* useful if HippoDraw, SciPy and > PyX could be incorporated at some point. All are reasonably stable and are > very useful tools for data analysis. HippoDraw in particular is a useful > analysis package which is compatible with ROOT, SciPy is an established data > processing library for Python and PyX is a high-quality plotting package for > Python. > > I'm not sure if RPMs exist at present for these packages, but would be happy > to investigate. If there is interest in including the StatPatternRecognition > library from SLAC, I'll look into seeing if that can be packaged, too. > > Thanks in advance, > Andy > > -- Chris Hunter Systems Programmer, Astronomy, Yale University [log in to unmask]