Hi David, On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:08 PM, David Cournapeau<courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Darren Dale<dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm not a core numpy developer and don't want to step on anybody's >> toes here. But I was wondering if anyone had considered approaching >> the Python Software Foundation about support to help get numpy working >> with python-3? > > I already gave my own opinion on py3k, which can be summarized as: > - it is a huge effort, and no core numpy/scipy developer has > expressed the urge to transition to py3k, since py3k does not bring > much for scientific computing. > - very few packages with a significant portion of C have been ported > to my knowledge, hence very little experience on how to do it. AFAIK, > only small packages have been ported. Even big, pure python projects > have not been ported. The only big C project to have been ported is > python itself, and it broke compatibility and used a different source > tree than python 2. > - it remains to be seen whether we can do the py3k support in the > same source tree as the one use for python >= 2.4. Having two source > trees would make the effort even much bigger, well over the current > developers capacity IMHO. > > The only area where I could see the PSF helping is the point 2: more > documentation, more stories about 2->3 transition.
I'm surprised to hear you say that. I would think additional developer and/or financial resources would be useful, for all of the reasons you listed. Darren _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
