[C++-sig] GSoC 2011 proposal for improved NumPy wrapper ?

[Jim Bosch]

On 03/23/2011 07:49 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As you may have heard, Boost has once again been accepted as a mentoring
> organization in this year's Google Summer of Code program. One of the
> potential projects that we have been talking about in the past is about
> improving the NumPy wrapper in Boost.Python.
> We talked about different shortcomings with the existing "numeric"
> module, and why a richer API to access NumPy would be useful.
>
> Some code to address these shortcomings already exists, and may be used
> as a starting point for such Boost.Python improvements.
>
> Anyone considering to work on this, please get in touch !

I would definitely like to be involved in this, and I can provide a lot 
of that "existing code".  I'm not sure I can sign up as a full mentor at 
this point - I have a PhD thesis to write this summer that needs to take 
priority - but I'd certainly like to help.

Jim Bosch