On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Kurt Smith<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Dag Sverre > Seljebotn<[email protected]> wrote: >> Kurt Smith wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As my GSoC winds up, we need to decide whether we'll package the >>> fortran parser, 'fparser' (located as a subpackage of the G3 F2PY >>> project http://code.google.com/p/f2py/) with Cython, or if it will >>> remain an external dependency. >>> >>> Dag Sverre and I had a short email thread with Pearu Peterson about >>> this, and inclusion was left as a possibility. I want to check here >>> and see if inclusion would be rejected straight away, before pursuing >>> the matter further with Pearu. >>> >>> First, I believe there to be no licensing issues, although I'm not >>> 100% certain here -- Cython is under the Apache license, right? And >>> G3 F2PY is under the Numpy-license. If these are incompatible then >>> that takes care of the issue. >>> >>> Otherwise -- >>> >>> In favor of including fparser: >>> >>> * Ease of use, one fewer barrier to entry. >>> * Dag and I both have commit access to fparser; we (principally me) >>> can fix bugs in the Cython branch of fparser. >>> * fparser is a self-contained package, but its ultimate design is a >>> part of another package (G3 F2PY) that is developing. Since users >>> would have to deal with the G3 F2PY level for download, etc, and G3 >>> F2PY is unfinished but for fparser, this would be confusing. It would >>> be great to hide these details completely. >>> >>> Against including fparser: >>> >>> * Maintenance & support -- responsibility for upkeep falls more on >>> Cython's shoulders (via yours truly). >>> * Bloat. It includes a large package in Cython not central to >>> Cython's core philosophy. >> >> Question: How large? Say, in bytes (and compressed bytes, if you bother >> to check). >> >> (I suppose it would be "hidden away" in the Tools folder, so download >> size seems to be the major concern.) > > About 600K for the .py source files, so we're not breaking the bank here.
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