On Sep 27, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Gabriel Gellner wrote:

> Well I have done some major updating to the Sphinx docs located at:
>
> www.mudskipper.ca/cython-doc/
>
> (and under cython mercurial at:
> hg.cython.org/cython-docs)

Thank you again so much!  Improving the docs is something that has  
been on my todolist for a long time, but never quite made it to the top.

> Highlights:
>
> * The very start of a tutorial (much more work will be done over  
> the next
>   week)
> * Added Dag's Numpy Tutorial
> * Basic Pygments Cython highlighter (still some bugs, but I will  
> iron them
>   out), so Cython is highlighted!
> * Ipython highlighter added from the matplotlib guys (check out the  
> numpy
>   tutorial)
> * Begun giving some real information on how to write setup.py files in
>   'Source files and Compilation'.
> * Removed some crufty information from sections like limitations.

It's looking good. The tutorial part is especially useful for  
beginners. One comment about highlighted, it might be nice to have a  
highlighted style where the new keywords (cdef, cimport, ...) stand  
out. People often find this useful.

> Short run plans:
>
> * Finish the Tutorial, relying heavily on Robert's scipy08 talk.
> * Finish the setup.py examples
> * Find all old Pyrex'y information and remove it.
> * Document that range(n) expansion is the default.
>
> As always tell me what you think.

While it's good to clean up the inconsistent (and sometimes  
confusing) use of the name Pyrex vs. Cython, I feel strongly that we  
need to credit Pyrex and all that Greg Ewing did (and maybe a bit  
about our relationship with that project), preferably right there on  
the first page in the overview.

- Robert


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