[ANN] Pythran O.8.0 is out

[serge guelton]

(sorry for the double posting, if any)

Dear pythraners and pythonists,

The Pythran team (a great deal of 2 active developers) is delighted to
announce the release of Pythran 0.8.0, available on the traditional
channels:

    - pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pythran
    - github: https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/pythran


What is it?
===========

Pythran is a static compiler for numerical kernels written in Python +
Numpy.
It basically turns Python-compatible modules into native ones,
eventually vectorized and parallelized.

More Infos
==========

We periodically publish some technical details about Pythran internal on the
blog:

    http://serge-sans-paille.github.io/pythran-stories/

It is open to third-party contribution!

Changelog
=========

    * Python 3 support

    * (unsound) Type Checker

    * Various bug fixes and perf improvement, as usual


Acknowledgments
===============

Kudos to Pierrick Brunet and to all the bug reporters and patch
providers that helped a lot for this release!

Special thanks to lesshaste for his critical bugreport!