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

[Jim Bosch]

On 03/25/2011 04:12 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> On 2011-03-25 06:55, Neal Becker wrote:
>> John Reid wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Is support planned for boost::multi_arrays? If not, can I add my +1?
>>>
>>> John.
>> If we're considering support for various c++ libs, ones to consider might
>> include:
>>
>> eigen
>> boost::multi_array
>> boost::ublas
>> nt2?
>
>
> The other day we seemed to agree that the project is already rather
> large, for a small 3 months of GSoC. Let's not add more and more feature
> requests to it. I'd like to focus on NumPy. Additional things may be
> added once the first steps are done.

I agree.  I think the focus should be on a Boost.Python interface to the 
Numpy C-API that can be used to simplify numpy converters for the 
various C++ template linear algebra libraries available, rather than 
provide Boost.Python support for any of those libraries specifically (yet).


Jim