[IronPython] Announcement: Project to get some CPython C extensions running under IronPython

[Giles Thomas]

Davy,

What would the issues be with NumPy - just the size of the API that 
would have to be wrapped?  I must admin that my biggest concern with 
this would be getting everything running under Mono...


Cheers,

Giles


Davy Mitchell wrote:
> On 10/12/07, Giles Thomas <giles.thomas at resolversystems.com> wrote:
>   
>> Python and .NET, but also the existing CPython C extensions.
>>     
>
> Hi Giles,
>
> Sounds like a good idea and the approaches mentioned seemed solid.
>
> One strategy I was considering for a port of my Mood News site to
> Ironpython (but not tried yet!) is wrapping a CPython Lib into a COM
> object using the win32 stuff and getting it into .Net via the COM
> interop support.
>
> Maybe not practical for Numpy :-) Does have the advantage of not
> having to modify the original lib...
>
> Cheers,
> Davy
>
>   

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