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

[Stefan Seefeld]

On 2011-03-24 09:31, Neal Becker wrote:
> Jim Bosch wrote:
>
>> On 03/23/2011 07:49 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>>> 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
> I am very interested in Jim's code, which I've just started using.  Previously,
> I have used pyublas extensively and found it very capable.  But Jim's ndarray
> code adds a lot of functionality.

Great.

> While I appreciate others wanting to get involved, this is a battle that has
> dragged on for years.  I doubt that even a brilliant newcomer can create
> something even approaching pyublas or ndarray in one summer.

Neal,

I wouldn't characterize it as a battle. While there are a couple of 
points which not everyone may agree with, I think overall the issue was 
merely that no-one has taken the time and effort to clean things up 
enough to be able to formally move it into boost trunk.

To get out of this impasse I don't think the solution is to start over. 
Rather, it is to work together with everyone who has something to 
contribute, build consensus (if required) on at least the most 
fundamental points, and then get closer to a new boost submission.

(OK, I'm fully aware of the difficulties in the non-technical aspects of 
this, so I think we need to carefully phrase the proposal such that it 
has a chance to succeed even if at the end it will still be a proposal, 
not an accepted new boost component.)

In other words, I expect the project to start with the existing code ( 
https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/numpy/, I think that is, yes ?) 
and improve that in various ways.

Do you not thing this is a sensible approach ?

Thanks,
     Stefan

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