[SciPy-dev] gsl and scipy

[arnd.baecker at physik.uni-ulm.de]

Hi,

what is the opinion on including (or making accessible)
the functionality of gsl
(http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/) within scipy ?

I know of pygsl (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygsl/)
which at present only covers a small part of gsl.

It seems that some of the functionality of gsl
is already within scipy - does this mean that
we would end up with different routines doing the same things ...?

Is there the possibility to use f2py etc. to
generate the necessary wrappers for scipy in an automatic way ?
(on the gsl page they recommend: swig, g-wrap)
How difficult would this be ?

A (slightly) related question: the output of
  help(scipy.special.airy)
is, well, not really helpful.
Would there be any way to attach the information given
at the beginning of  special/cephes/airy.c
to the documentation (again in an automatic way ?)?

Arnd