Author: mattip <[email protected]> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r4951:b4d02bc86843 Date: 2013-03-05 23:16 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/b4d02bc86843/
Log: rework numpypy status report, add a mention of bdk's work diff --git a/blog/draft/numpy-status-update-6.rst b/blog/draft/numpy-status-update-6.rst --- a/blog/draft/numpy-status-update-6.rst +++ b/blog/draft/numpy-status-update-6.rst @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ NumPy status update #6 ---------------------- -This is status report on PyPy's NumPyPy project. +An update, and some good news First the update: -* **dtype support** - NumPy on PyPy now supports all the numeric dtypes in numpy, - including non-native storage formats, longdouble, clongdouble and friends. +* **dtype support** - NumPy on PyPy now supports non-native storage formats. + Due to a lack of true support for longdoubles in rpython, we decided to back + out the support of longdouble-as-double which was misleading. * **missing ndarray attributes** - work has been made toward supporting the complete set of attributes @@ -18,14 +19,16 @@ * There has been some work on exposing FFI routines in numpypy. -More importantly, we're closing on being able to run the pure-python part of -numpy without modifications. This is not getting us close to passing all -the tests, but it's a good start. +* Brian Kearns has made progress in mapping translated _numpypy submodules to + the numpy core c-based submodules, furthering the goal of being able to install + numpy as a pure-python module with few modifications. -The most important part is the funding. While we managed to get a significant -amount of money in donations, we only managed to spend around $10 000 from it -so far. We have issued a call for additional developers, and hope to be able to -report on speedier progress soon. +And now the good news: + +While our funding drive over 2012 did not reach our goal, we still managed to +raise a fair amount of money in donations. So far we only managed to spend around $10 000 of it. +We issued a call for additional developers, and are glad to welcome ___________ +to the numpypy team. Hopefully we will be able to report on speedier progress soon. Cheers, Matti Picus, Maciej Fijalkowski _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
