Re: [matplotlib-devel] Experiments in removing/replacing PyCXX

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Damon McDougall
<dam...@gm...>wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal
> <chr...@no...> wrote:
> > generated code is ugly and hard to maintain, it is not designed to be
> > human-readable, and we wouldn't get the advantages of bug-fixes
> > further development in Cython.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, this is an argument against Cython.
>
> I've had to touch the C/C++/ObjC codebase. It was not automatically
> generated by Cython and it's not that hard to read. There's almost
> certainly a C/C++/ObjC expert around to help out. There's almost
> certainly Cython experts to help out, too. There is almost certainly
> *not* an expert in Cython-generated C code that is hard to read.
>

You've had to touch the C/C++/ObjC because that's the only source that
exists; in this case that's the C *is* the implementation of the wrapper.

 If we go Cython, the cython source is all that is maintained. It may be
useful to glance at generated code, but no-one should be tweaking it by
hand--the Cython source, and only the Cython source, represents the
implementation of the wrapper.

Ryan

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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma