On 10/31/06, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I see with PIL and Matplotlib and PyOpenGL is that they're having > to add specific support for Numpy and numeric and numarray and PIL and > ctypes etc.
This is a real problem, and a waste of developing time, because we lack a **general** and **standard** mechanism. > would the proposed extensions make it > possible for all these different packages to just have to support "buffer > protocol" and magically be able to work with numpy or numeric without having > to introduce explicit dependencies and support code for all those other > packages? I think this is the actual reason of Travis's proposal, and of all other people like me supporting him. > If I've got the facts straight then I'd be happy to go and say > that on comp.lang.python. > Please, go on! -- Lisandro Dalcín --------------- Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion