DEP, MAINT: Remove references to numeric and numarray.

This covers those locations that either import or build numarray
or numeric.
DEP, MAINT: Copy info function from numarray.

The numarray info function is called by lib.utils.info. Rename it
to _info and copy into lib/utils.py. Some modifications are made
as it only needs to support numpy.
DEP, DOC: Undocument numarray and numeric.

Mention that they were removed in 1.9.0.
DEP, DOC: Document removal of oldnumeric and numarray in release notes.
DEP: Remove deprecated modules numarray and oldnumeric.

They were deprecated in 1.8 and scheduled for removal in 1.9.

Closes #3637.
BUG: fix wrong gcc version check

probably irrelevant by now, but emits a warning during compilation.
Merge pull request #3807 from juliantaylor/gcc-check

BUG: fix wrong gcc version check
Fix platform detection for intel platform where get_platform() returns a string ending in x86_64, for instance 'macosx-10.8-x86_64'.
Merge pull request #3818 from lxbarth/master

BUG: fix platform detection for intel platforms
Merge pull request #3638 from charris/remove-numarray-and-oldnumeric

Remove numarray and oldnumeric
Do not fail with NameError if SandboxViolation is raised
Merge pull request #3821 from NextThought/master

Installation fails with NameError if SandboxViolation is raised
BUG: core: consider both C and F order buffers as contiguous
Merge pull request #3827 from pv/fix-gh-3796

BUG: core: consider both C and F order buffers as contiguous