On 18.02.2013 21:23, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > 18.02.2013 20:41, Dag Sverre Seljebotn kirjoitti: > [clip] >> I think there should be a new project, pylapack or similar, for >> this, >> outside of NumPy and SciPy. NumPy and SciPy could try to import it, >> and >> if found, fetch a function pointer table. (If not found, just stay >> with >> what has been working for a decade.) >> >> The main motivation would be to decouple building NumPy from linking >> with BLAS and have that all happen at run-time. But a Cython >> interface >> would follow naturally too. > > The main motivation for sticking it into Scipy would be a bit > different > --- since the build and distribution infra is in place for Scipy, > putting it in scipy.linalg makes it more easily available for a > larger > number of people than some random 3-rd party module. > > We already ship low-level f2py bindings, so I don't see a reason for > not > shipping Cython ones too.
I find Dag's approach more appealing. SciPy can be problematic (windows 64-bit) and if one could offer access to the linear algebra functions without needing SciPy I would certainly prefer it. Armando _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion