Jeff Whitaker wrote: > Chris: I don't consider the pyrex GEOS interface I created for basemap > a general-purpose binding - it's limited to the only the functionality > that basemap needs.
sure, but if there was an existing general purpose binding that met your needs, you wouldn't need this. > The ability of pyrex to do loops in C makes it a > lot faster than the Shapely ctypes interface though. True -- that is key. If the C lib doesn't provide a "vectorized" API, then you do need to find a way to loop in C yourself. > I have > corresponded with Sean Gillies about this (and the LGPL licensing > issue), and as a result I think Shapley 2.0 will be based on Pyrex and > will have a BSD license. Perhaps then I can switch basemap back to > using it. Cool -- that is open-source collaboration as it should be! > Eric mentioned the fact that ctypes often has a hard time finding the > shared library to load. > You can't even tell ctypes where to look - > it's hard-coded into the Shapely __init__ and there's no way I can see > to override the search path that ctypes uses. Wow! that does seem an oversight. I haven't used ctypes myself -- frankly, I think people are trying to push it a bit too far, it's an excellent solution for calling the occasional system lib, but maybe not so much for writing full-featured wrappers. Pyrex is very cool though. For the moment, I'm struggling with SWIG, and sadly it is a bit of a struggle. However I'm doing 'cause it's used by wxPython, GDAL, and VTK, all of which I want to be able to hack on a bit, so I might as well learn it. Anyway -- basemap is looking better and better! -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
