[IronPython] numpy / IronClad?

[Chad Brockman]

So I’m assuming no Silverlight then? For the same reasons?

Thanks, Chad

From: Jason McCampbell [mailto:jmccampbell at enthought.com]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 1:28 PM
To: Doug Blank
Cc: Discussion of IronPython; Chad Brockman
Subject: Re: [IronPython] numpy / IronClad?

As IronPython runs under many different operating systems now, it
would be useful to know what the dependencies are for numpy and scipy:

- is Windows a requirement?
- does it work under Mono?

No, not directly but practically for the short-term Windows is requires for the SciPy piece.  NumPy is quite cross-platform and uses the very cross-platform NumPy core (C code), a little bit of C++ code, and a bunch of C#.  I haven't tried building it on Mono recently but aside from getting the builds to work there shouldn't be a lot of work.  It does require .NET 4 so likely Mono 2.10 will be a requirement.

SciPy is more restrictive because it relies on C++/CLI which is not supported on Mono.  The reason is that we are using the Cython tool to generate interfaces for CPython and IronPython from a single source.  Unfortunately because Cython allows users to import arbitrary C header files, C++/CLI was the only practical option for the time being.

- can IronRuby etc take advantage of these libraries?

Probably, at least some of the functionality.  The interface is straight .NET so C#, F# and other languages can make use of the NumPy ndarray object and other objects.  The biggest limitation is that a fair amount of the functionality is implemented in Python so it is necessary to evaluate Python expressions to make use of it.  This is straightforward from C# or F# and I am assuming it can be done from IronRuby, but that's just a guess.

I tried to run the build the process with xbuild rather than msbuild,
but it looks like System.Numerics might not be implemented in Mono?

I was able to add a reference to System.Numerics and open it under Mono 2.10 and I thought it was part of 2.8 but I may be mistaken. Perhaps Mono is selecting the wrong .NET runtime?

Thanks!

-Doug

> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Chad Brockman <chadbr at slb.com<mailto:chadbr at slb.com>> wrote:
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>> Anyone know if the effort to port numpy to IronPython is still alive?
>> Enthought / MS announced it last year?
>> http://www.enthought.com/media/SciPyNumPyDotNet.pdf
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>> Anyone know if IronClad is still being developed?
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>> Thanks, Chad
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