Hi, I am in a process of writing a scientific paper about F2PY that will provide an automatic solution to the Python and Fortran connection problem. While writing it, I also need to decide what will be the future of F2PY. In particulary, I have the following main questions to which I am looking for suggestions: 1) where the future users of F2PY should find it, 2) how the users can get support (documentation, mailing lists, etc). 3) where to continue the development of F2PY.
Currently, F2PY has three "home pages": 1) http://cens.ioc.ee/projects/f2py2e/ - this has old f2py. The old f2py is unique in that it covers Numeric and numarray support, but is not being developed anymore. 2) http://www.scipy.org/F2py - this covers the current f2py included in NumPy. f2py in numpy is rather stable and is being maintained. There is no plans to add new functionalities (like F90 derived type support) to the numpy f2py. 3) http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/numpy/wiki/G3F2PY - this is a wiki page for the third generation of f2py. It aims at adding full Fortran 90/../2003 support to the f2py tool, including F90 derived types as well as POINTER arguments. It should replace numpy f2py in future. Obviosly, the three "home pages" for f2py is too much, even when they cover three different code sets. So, now I am looking for to unify these places to one site that will cover all three code sets with software, documentation, and support. Currently I can think of the following options: Use Google Code. Pros: it provides necessary infrastructure to develop software projects and I am used to it. Cons: in my experience Google Code has been too many times broken (at least three times in half a year), though this may improve in future. Also, Google Code provides only SVN, no hg. Since f2py will be an important tool for numpy/scipy users, it would be natural to continue developing f2py under these projects. However, there are rumours of cleaning up scipy/numpy from extension generation tools and so in long term, f2py may need to look for another home. So, I wonder if a hosting could be provided for f2py? Say, in a form of f2py.scipy.org or www.f2py.org? I am rather ignorant about these matters, so any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Pearu _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
