On 2011-08-24 18:31, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
On 24 August 2011 17:21, Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com
<mailto:lgaut...@gmail.com>> wrote:
So far the only sponsorship was Google through a GSoC project,
funding a student - Greg. It helped progress a lot toward
compatibility with Python 3: current rpy2 builds and pass all but
one unit test (numpy-related capabilities being not tested) with
Python 3.2 and R-2.13.
Aside: numpy does also support Python 3 (since about a year ago), so
in principle that gap could be filled.
It would be good to get a GSoC project for Windows support - there's
certainly quite a few people asking for it.
This is raising an interesting point regarding the funding of Open
Source projects: how do you get there ? Google is a generous sponsor and
it has been helping a very large number of projects, but can it be
considered the only source ? I have been looking a bit at where rpy2 is
used and I roughly have three main domains, all with academic groups and
companies:
- Geographical Information Systems
- Finance (Investment Banking and Trading)
- Life Sciences
- Marketing
Now that's not exactly a list in which one would think for all entries:
no way, they are broke. What Google is doing, probably for a mix of
image as well as a genuine way to give back to the Open Source
community, with the GSoC can be expanded and embraced by other
companies. It does not have to be students, it could cover larger or
smaller sponsored development, it could be companies offering a bounty
for the implementation of feature X or Y, etc...
But I guess that's tricky, because Laurent can't provide so much
advice for Windows development.
Well, I wrote Windows-specific code to get rpy2 to work (Windows was not
supported with the initial release 2.0.0, if I remember correctly -
callbacks were broken but I never found the motivation to fix them), as
well as made the binary builds part of the time (could not be bothered
the rest of the time, and people kindly contributed builds - one which
was a company that donated employee time to make the builds).
It is mostly a question of getting me to consider doing it any longer. ;-)
I wonder if one of the R-on-windows developers would be interested in
co-mentoring a student.
Thomas
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