[Numpy-discussion] Re: Numpy2 and GSL

[Achim G. <Ach...@un...>]

Ok, there is a clear need for the facility of easy contribution.
Please be patient until Friday, December 7th. Then I have time to let it =
happen.

It is right that the oficial site for this project is at pygsl.sourcefogr=
ge.net
(Brian Gough, can you change the link on the gsl homepage, thanks :-) )

But I will show some discussion points that must be clear before a cvs re=
lease:

- Is the file and directory structure fully expandable, can several perso=
ns work
parallel?

- Should classes be created with excellent working objects or should it b=
e a 1:1
wrapper?

- should there be one interface dynamic library or more than one?

- Is there an other way expect that of the GPL (personally prefered, but =
other
opinions should be discussed before the contribution of source)

Some questions of minor weight:

- Is the tuple return value for (value,error) ok in the sf module?

- Test cases are needed

These questions are the reason, why I do not simply "copy" my code into c=
vs.

Jochen K=FCpper wrote:
>=20
> It only provides wrapper for the special functions, but more is to
> come. (Hopefully Achim will put the cvs on sf soon.)
>=20
> Yes, I agree, PyGSL should be fully integrated with Numpy2, but it
> should probably also remain a separate project -- as Numpy should stay
> a base layer for all kind of numerical stuff and hopefully make it
> into core python at some point (my personal wish, no more, AFAICT!).
>=20
> I think when PyGSL will fully go to SF (or anything similar) more
> people would start contributing and we should have a fine general
> numerical algorithms library for python soon!
>=20

I agree with Jochen and I'd like to move to the core of Python too. But t=
his is
far away and I hate monolithic distributions.

If there is the need to discuss seperately about PyGSL we can do that her=
e or at
the gsl-discuss list mailto:gsl...@so... . But there is=
 also
the possibility of a mailinglist at pygsl.sourceforge.net . Please let me=
 know.