Hi, I'm a developer contributing to GDAL project (http://www.gdal.org). GDAL is a core GeoSpatial Librarry that has had Python bindings for a while. Recently, we did get some reports from users that GDAL bindings do not work with NumPy package. We've learned on the NumPy website that it's a new derivation from Numeric code base. So, now we are facing the question what we should do? Should we completely port our project to use NumPy or to stay with Numeric for a while (e.g. 1 year). There is also idea to support both packages. Python plays a very important role in GDAL project, so our concern are quite critical for future development. This situation brings some questions we'd like to ask NumPy Dev Team: Is it fair to say we are unlikely to see Numeric releases for new Pythons in the future? Can we consider NumPy as the only package in future? Simply, we are wondering which Python library we should develop for NumPy, Numeric or numarray to be most generally useful. What's the recommended way to go now? We'd appreciate your assistance on this issue. Best regards -- Mateusz Łoskot http://mateusz.loskot.net