Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-29 Thread Hans Meine
Am 26.08.2011 um 20:25 schrieb Jim Bosch: > - … the rvalue converters in particular don't seem to have been intended as part of the public API originally, and I think they're an important part of the library. Correct, great! > - Automatic conversions for newer boost libraries (Fusion, Pointer

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-27 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/26/2011 08:21 PM, Jim Bosch wrote: > On 08/26/2011 04:47 PM, Neal Becker wrote: >> The top of my list is improved interface to numpy. I know there is >> work going >> on in the form of ndarray, which seems promising. > > I'm still hesitant to consider ndarray part of Boost.Python; it's > rea

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-27 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/26/2011 04:09 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote: > on Thu Aug 25 2011, Stefan Seefeld wrote: >> Jim, >> >> this is an interesting idea. There has been lots of general (dare I >> say generic ?) discussion concerning process improvements (which >> unfortunately most of the time diverted into tool discus

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Bosch
On 08/26/2011 04:47 PM, Neal Becker wrote: The top of my list is improved interface to numpy. I know there is work going on in the form of ndarray, which seems promising. I'm still hesitant to consider ndarray part of Boost.Python; it's really a separate library, and I think providing a full

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Neal Becker
The top of my list is improved interface to numpy. I know there is work going on in the form of ndarray, which seems promising. ___ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Dave Abrahams
Trying to catch up here, so responding to everything all at once. on Thu Aug 25 2011, Jim Bosch wrote: Just how tall are you, Jimbo? > I'd like to start work on a new major release of Boost.Python. That certainly is welcome news. > While the library is currently well-maintained in terms of

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Bosch
On 08/25/2011 04:26 PM, Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: Hi Jim, CC to Dave. This is great news. My main interests have been stability and not increasing the memory footprint of boost.python extensions. I'm not in a position to further develop boost.python. Troy and Ravi have done a significant amo

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Bosch
On 08/26/2011 04:17 AM, Neal Becker wrote: What sort of improvements did you have in mind? My list includes: - Propagating constness to Python (essentially already done as an extension, but it could have a much nicer interface if I could mess with class_ itself). - Make custom registry and

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/26/2011 01:28 PM, Niall Douglas wrote: > BTW, how has the Python3k port worked out? I'm not sure if it's been > mainlined yet has it? Best of luck! Niall I'm not using Python 3k myself, so I can't comment, but the P3K port most definitely went into trunk and has been part of the last couple

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Niall Douglas
On 25 Aug 2011 at 13:59, Jim Bosch wrote: > - For other Boost.Python experts on this list: do you have existing code > or development time you'd like to contribute? Firstly, I must commend you as you're a better man than I for initiating this. I mostly chase money these past few years, and I d

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/26/2011 07:17 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > What sort of improvements did you have in mind? Two things on my list that are likely going to be somewhat disruptive are: * Support for subclassing boost.python's own metaclass. * A per-module type registry, to avoid conflicting converters in multi-mo

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Neal Becker
What sort of improvements did you have in mind? ___ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-25 Thread Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve
Hi Jim, CC to Dave. This is great news. My main interests have been stability and not increasing the memory footprint of boost.python extensions. I'm not in a position to further develop boost.python. Troy and Ravi have done a significant amount of work. I hope they will comment for themselves. I

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-25 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/25/2011 04:59 PM, Jim Bosch wrote: > > To that end, I'm inclined to copy the library to somewhere else > (possibly the boost sandbox, but more likely a separate site), work on > it, produce some minor releases, and re-submit it to Boost for review. > Perhaps the external site would continue o