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

[Praveen Kumar]

Thanks Stefan !
I would enjoy working with your support and I will be needing your help in
preparing the proposal.
Meanwhile, I shall go through the code.

Cheers,
Praveen


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Stefan Seefeld <stefan at seefeld.name> wrote:

> 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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>
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