OK I got some response on my GSoC Fortran project call, so in interest 
of that I'd like to have a quick poll (preferably without going into 
details at this stage):

Is it OK to have nice and convenient wrapping of Fortran libraries as an 
additional feature of core Cython?

 [ ] Yes, that would be grand
 [ ] No, that would bloat the language and/or the compiler/project too 
much, I'd prefer to see this in a standalone tool/plugin

The most basic examples could be done at a "C library level", however 
delegating this to a C library or tool one wouldn't be able to simply 
pass an "object[int, ndim=2]" to Fortran and have Fortran access it 
through the buffer interface (as it lacks a canonical C representation). 
So making the Python buffer interface and Fortran array types play 
nicely together is a reason to have Cython-specific support for this.

Dag Sverre
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