On Saturday, February 18, 2012, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Travis Oliphant > <tra...@continuum.io<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > We will need to see examples of what Mark is talking about and clarify > some > > of the compiler issues. Certainly there is some risk that once code is > > written that it will be tempting to just use it. Other approaches are > > certainly worth exploring in the mean-time, but C++ has some strong > > arguments for it. > > The worry as I understand it is that a C++ rewrite might make the > numpy core effectively a read-only project for anyone but Mark. Do > you have any feeling for whether that is likely? > > Dude, have you seen the .c files in numpy/core? They are already read-only for pretty much everybody but Mark.
All kidding aside, is your concern that when Mark starts this that no one will be able to contribute until he is done? I can tell you right now that won't be the case as I will be trying to flesh out issues with datetime64 with him. Ben Root
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