[Cython] [SciPy-dev] Inclusion of cython code in scipy

[Dag Sverre Seljebotn]

Ondrej Certik wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Nathan Bell <wnbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Anne Archibald
>>  <peridot.faceted at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >
>>
>>     
>>>  What do people think about including cython code in scipy?
>>>       
>>  >
>>
>>  Writing a substantial amount of code in a special-purpose language
>>  like Cython is always risky.  Will Cython exist in 5,10,15 years?
>>
>>  I have little doubt that in 10 years I'll still be able to compile the
>>  C/C++ codes I develop today.  Furthermore, if Cython/SWIG/SciPy/NumPy
>>  disappeared overnight I'd still have a decent library to work with.
>>  IMO using Cython for one-off application or wrappers is fine, but
>>  large-scale Cython implementation is probably a bad long-term
>>  approach.
>>     

Apropos: Alan McIntyre will be doing a GSoC project this summer for 
rewriting parts of NumPy in Cython:

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/psf/appinfo.html?csaid=CDEB395EBA2BB1D8

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Dag Sverre