[aur-general] Plan of moving python(2)-pandas to community

[Aaron DeVore]

 Andrzej,
  Since you're now maintaining xlrd and xlwt, could you also grab my
python2-xlutils package? python-xlutils should be deleted in the process. I
had left it as a placeholder.

-Aaron DeVore


On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Andrzej Giniewicz <gginiu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> just wanted to let you know about my plan of moving Pandas to community,
> so they don't interfere with plans of other TUs or AUR maintainers.
>
> Pandas is popular package (approximately 50 votes for bot python 2 and
> python 3 version in AUR[1,2]) and is one of the basic packages for doing
> science in Python, it is vital part of so called "SciPy Stack"[3] (and
> actually last missing piece). I planned to do it lot earlier, but there
> were some remaining issues that were fixed by 0.14.0 release - most
> important finally official support for current release of Python 3.4[4].
>
> Pandas has very few dependencies, but a lot of recommended and optional
> dependencies, all of which provide important pieces of functionality, to
> make the experience complete. That's why I will move in and maintain all
> it's dependencies as well, unless someone has anything against it. This
> includes:
>
> - bottleneck library [5,6]
> - statsmodels library [7,8]
> - patsy library [9,10]
> - set of libraries to read and write Excel files [11,12,13,14,15,16]
>
> The order of moving those packages will be following:
>
> - bottleneck because it is recommended dependency providing speed to
> lots of operations
> - libraries to deal with Excel, because it improves usability of library
> and is direct dependency
> - Pandas itself
> - Patsy, because it is dependency of statsmodels
> - statsmodels, because pandas is its dependency, and it is optdependency
> of pandas - so it comes last
> - Pandas again, but with statsmodels as optdepends and tests enabled
>
> I hope to push one update every few days. I will let the related
> packages settle in community for day or two and then push next ones,
> staring on 4'th June, hopefully finish with those before 17'th - it
> takes some time, mostly due to limited time I can spend of this
> particular move.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrzej.
>
> [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-pandas/
> [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-pandas/
> [3]: http://www.scipy.org/stackspec.html
> [4]: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html
> [5]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-bottleneck/
> [6]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-bottleneck/
> [7]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-statsmodels/
> [8]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-statsmodels/
> [9]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-patsy/
> [10]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-patsy/
> [11]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-openpyxl/
> [12]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-openpyxl/
> [13]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-xlwt/
> [14]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-xlwt/
> [15]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-xlrd/
> [16]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-xlrd/
>
>