I should add that the deadline for this appears to be tomorrow (the 12th).
Niall On 11 Mar 2009 at 20:50, Niall Douglas wrote: > On 11 Mar 2009 at 13:42, Ravi wrote: > > > On Wednesday 11 March 2009 12:38:55 Haoyu Bai wrote: > > > > 1. Thread safety > > > > 2. PyFinalize support > > > > 3. Easier methods to write to_python/from_python converters > > > > 4. Python 3.0 support > > > > 5. Ability to extend the fundamental PyTypeObject used by boost.python > > My thread safety patch is still working to my knowledge. It sure > would be lovely to have it officially integrated. I'd also like to > see PyFinalize working though maybe not "complete" in the sense of a > total cleanup (just "good enough"). > > I would say that any GSoC project should choose *one* of the above > rather than try combining them. Better to do one thing well and in > stages than many things at once (unless you have loads of spare > time!). > > I have been out of commission development-wise during the last few > years as I have been undertaking some very time consuming academic > study - hence I have been very quiet on here. However, I finally > become free come this June and at long, long last I finally can > return to my own self-directed study (but now I have a whole pile of > bits of paper to officially say I can do what I was already capable > of). I will certainly be updating my TnFOX library for sure anyway, > and that means fresh Python bindings. > > > > Thanks! Seems there's a lot of interesting. So would anyone willing to > > > mentor this? > > > > Sadly, I suspect that finding a mentor will be difficult (perhaps even more > > difficult than the actual project). Off the top of my head, the following > > folks come to mind: > > - Dave Abrahams > > - Stefan Seefeld > > - Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve > > - Roman Yakovenko > > You might try contacting them off list or on c++-sig (cc'ed on this email). > > It's not /quite/ as easy as that ... Google want a mentoring > organisation rather than just a mentor and it has to be an approved > one. I could volunteer as mentor but I wouldn't qualify as I don't > come with an organisation attached. I'd need an approved organisation > to adopt me. > > > I did not mean to imply that the features I requested should be part of > > your > > GSoC. Thread safety & PyFinalize support would each be worth a GSoC project > > just by themselves, IMHO. If you will be tackling python 3.0 support, it > > might > > be possible to combine it with greater support for embedding python since > > much > > of the work in both aspects would be about wrapping python C API for C++ > > programmers. > > As mentioned before, thread safety is actually fairly trivial as all > the required work is already done. There is certainly some work > involved in writing a test suite and making my patch much more > generic as my patch was specifically designed to be diff-friendly to > any Boost alterations, and it doesn't make for good code. I would be > happy to mentor this project if we can find an approved mentoring > organisation to adopt me. It certainly would be a good GSoC for a > student programmer. > > PyFinalize() is likely just a hard slog in catching all the code > paths you wouldn't expect. It's harder than thread safety, but doable > as a GSoc. > > Adding Python 3.0 support ... I am afraid I have no idea as I've been > out of the coding scene for two years now, but it does sound big and > complex. But it's something I'm interested in though I'd be not much > use as a mentor except as in general Boost.Python programming. > > So, I guess you got a bit of a mentor if you'd like. BTW, I couldn't > start mentoring till the start of June as I have my final project due > then. But that fits the GSoC timetable just perfect. > > If you want to know more about my suitability, search this mailing > list. > > HTH, > Niall > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cplusplus-sig mailing list > Cplusplus-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig _______________________________________________ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig
