Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Bosch
On 08/26/2011 04:47 PM, Neal Becker wrote: The top of my list is improved interface to numpy. I know there is work going on in the form of ndarray, which seems promising. I'm still hesitant to consider ndarray part of Boost.Python; it's really a separate library, and I think providing a full

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Neal Becker
The top of my list is improved interface to numpy. I know there is work going on in the form of ndarray, which seems promising. ___ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig

[C++-sig] [Boost.Python v3] Features and Scope

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Bosch
On 08/26/2011 01:09 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote: Well, speaking for myself, mostly time. I'd be inclined to do a rewrite along the lines of the langbinding ideas if I had time. I had only been vaguely aware of langbinding until I followed up on your last email. It's a very nice separation, tho

[C++-sig] [Boost.Python v3] Planning and Logistics

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Bosch
In the interest of keeping this discussion easy-to-follow, I'm going to reply to Dave's email twice, with new subjects - I'll stick to questions about logistics in this email, and talk about features and scope in another. In summary, I'm getting the sense that a branch in the mainline (not san

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Dave Abrahams
Trying to catch up here, so responding to everything all at once. on Thu Aug 25 2011, Jim Bosch wrote: Just how tall are you, Jimbo? > I'd like to start work on a new major release of Boost.Python. That certainly is welcome news. > While the library is currently well-maintained in terms of

Re: [C++-sig] Boost Python loss of values

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Bosch
On 08/26/2011 08:27 AM, Jay Riley wrote: Hi Jim, Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately it didn't work. It really feels like it's making a copy for some reason as once I return to the int AttackWrapper::CalculateDamage(const std::vector& users, Game::Battles::BattleCharacter* target, const st

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Bosch
On 08/25/2011 04:26 PM, Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: Hi Jim, CC to Dave. This is great news. My main interests have been stability and not increasing the memory footprint of boost.python extensions. I'm not in a position to further develop boost.python. Troy and Ravi have done a significant amo

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Bosch
On 08/26/2011 04:17 AM, Neal Becker wrote: What sort of improvements did you have in mind? My list includes: - Propagating constness to Python (essentially already done as an extension, but it could have a much nicer interface if I could mess with class_ itself). - Make custom registry and

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/26/2011 01:28 PM, Niall Douglas wrote: > BTW, how has the Python3k port worked out? I'm not sure if it's been > mainlined yet has it? Best of luck! Niall I'm not using Python 3k myself, so I can't comment, but the P3K port most definitely went into trunk and has been part of the last couple

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Niall Douglas
On 25 Aug 2011 at 13:59, Jim Bosch wrote: > - For other Boost.Python experts on this list: do you have existing code > or development time you'd like to contribute? Firstly, I must commend you as you're a better man than I for initiating this. I mostly chase money these past few years, and I d

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Stefan Seefeld
On 08/26/2011 07:17 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > What sort of improvements did you have in mind? Two things on my list that are likely going to be somewhat disruptive are: * Support for subclassing boost.python's own metaclass. * A per-module type registry, to avoid conflicting converters in multi-mo

Re: [C++-sig] Boost Python loss of values

2011-08-26 Thread Jay Riley
Hi Jim, Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately it didn't work. It really feels like it's making a copy for some reason as once I return to the int AttackWrapper::CalculateDamage(const std::vector& users, Game::Battles::BattleCharacter* target, const std::vector& targets, Game::Battles:

Re: [C++-sig] New Major-Release Boost.Python Development

2011-08-26 Thread Neal Becker
What sort of improvements did you have in mind? ___ Cplusplus-sig mailing list Cplusplus-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cplusplus-sig