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 <ste...@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 > > -- > > ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin... > > _______________________________________________ > Cplusplus-sig mailing list > Cplusplus-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig >
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