Re: [C++-sig] GSoC 2011 proposal for improved NumPy wrapper ?

2011-03-23 Thread Praveen Kumar 
Hi !
I am Praveen Kumar pursuing Integrated M.Sc in Applied Mathematics at IIT
Roorkee, India. One the very first day when
the list of selected organisations was released, I wanted to work on this
project on improving the NumPy wrapper in Boost.Python.
I even read the discussions on the mailing lists regarding increasing the
limited support of numpy.ndarray. Stefan was talking something
about the need of raw pointers and limited support because  of no support of
multi-dimensional arrays in C++. My knowledge of STL is 3/5
and I am good at python. I have never used smart pointers because I never
felt the need of it. I use version control systems but not subversion.
Since, It is my first time at GSoC, I was a bit hesitant to drop my
willingness to code for this project in the mailing list.



On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Jim Bosch  wrote:

> On 03/23/2011 07:49 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> As you may have heard, Boost has once again been accepted as a mentoring
>> organization in this year's Google Summer of Code program. One of the
>> potential projects that we have been talking about in the past is about
>> improving the NumPy wrapper in Boost.Python.
>> We talked about different shortcomings with the existing "numeric"
>> module, and why a richer API to access NumPy would be useful.
>>
>> Some code to address these shortcomings already exists, and may be used
>> as a starting point for such Boost.Python improvements.
>>
>> Anyone considering to work on this, please get in touch !
>>
>
> I would definitely like to be involved in this, and I can provide a lot of
> that "existing code".  I'm not sure I can sign up as a full mentor at this
> point - I have a PhD thesis to write this summer that needs to take priority
> - but I'd certainly like to help.
>
> Jim Bosch
>
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Re: [C++-sig] GSoC 2011 proposal for improved NumPy wrapper ?

2011-03-24 Thread Praveen Kumar 
Thanks Stefan !
I would enjoy working with your support and I will be needing your help in
preparing the proposal.
Meanwhile, I shall go through the code.

Cheers,
Praveen


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Stefan Seefeld  wrote:

> On 2011-03-24 09:31, Neal Becker wrote:
>
>> Jim Bosch wrote:
>>
>>  On 03/23/2011 07:49 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>>>
 Anyone considering to work on this, please get in touch !

>>> I would definitely like to be involved in this, and I can provide a lot
>>> of that "existing code".  I'm not sure I can sign up as a full mentor at
>>> this point - I have a PhD thesis to write this summer that needs to take
>>> priority - but I'd certainly like to help.
>>>
>>> Jim Bosch
>>>
>> I am very interested in Jim's code, which I've just started using.
>>  Previously,
>> I have used pyublas extensively and found it very capable.  But Jim's
>> ndarray
>> code adds a lot of functionality.
>>
>
> Great.
>
>
>  While I appreciate others wanting to get involved, this is a battle that
>> has
>> dragged on for years.  I doubt that even a brilliant newcomer can create
>> something even approaching pyublas or ndarray in one summer.
>>
>
> Neal,
>
> I wouldn't characterize it as a battle. While there are a couple of points
> which not everyone may agree with, I think overall the issue was merely that
> no-one has taken the time and effort to clean things up enough to be able to
> formally move it into boost trunk.
>
> To get out of this impasse I don't think the solution is to start over.
> Rather, it is to work together with everyone who has something to
> contribute, build consensus (if required) on at least the most fundamental
> points, and then get closer to a new boost submission.
>
> (OK, I'm fully aware of the difficulties in the non-technical aspects of
> this, so I think we need to carefully phrase the proposal such that it has a
> chance to succeed even if at the end it will still be a proposal, not an
> accepted new boost component.)
>
> In other words, I expect the project to start with the existing code (
> https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/numpy/, I think that is, yes ?)
> and improve that in various ways.
>
> Do you not thing this is a sensible approach ?
>
> Thanks,
>
>Stefan
>
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