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 ============
 
 The required dependencies to build the software are python >= 2.5,
-setuptools, NumPy >= 1.1, SciPy >= 0.6 (although having at least 0.7
-is highly recommended and required by some modules) and a working C++
-compiler.
+setuptools, NumPy >= 1.2, SciPy >= 0.7 and a working C++ compiler.
 
 To run the tests you will also need nose >= 0.10.