Re: [Pyode-user] Status of the wrappers?

[Bernie R. <br...@ec...>]

Hmm... that's very nice of you to offer.  I would suggest the money goes to 
Matthias, for these reasons...

1) The code is his, I'm just making small changes to it

2) When I do commercial projects, $300 isn't much money

3) When I do non-commercial projects, $300 is way too much!  *smile*



At 02:38 PM 6/22/2004, brett hartshorn wrote:
>Hello Bernie and Matthias,
>
>Clean and quick with Pyrex sounds like a good plan, i wish you luck.  I 
>won't be able to help with
>any of the code for the next 2-3 months.  But in two months i am quitting 
>my day job to make more
>time for working on free software projects, and then i may have time to help.
>
>I want to see the ODE wrappers done and done well.  So i am putting a $300 
>bounty on them.  This
>bounty is not meant to make people fight, everyone should still work 
>together as much as possible.
>  I just know from my own experiences it can be hard to work on free 
> software and pay the bills, so
>this bounty is just meant to help out the developer a little bit.
>
>Here's the conditions for the bounty:
>   1. All the features of ODE are exposed in Python (within reason, not 
> every little thing, but all
>of the important stuff)
>   2. The code is clean and easy to build (clean: i should have no 
> problems in reading it) (easy to
>build: can be built on all platforms)
>   3. It is licensed under the GNU GPL or LGPL
>
>
>Thoughts?
>-brett
>
>
>--- Bernie Roehl <br...@ec...> wrote:
> > At 11:05 AM 6/21/2004 -0700, brett hartshorn wrote:
> > >Wrapping a
> > >wrapper is not ideal, but from the perspective where several python
> > >wrappers must be created and
> > >maintained, it makes sense that they all use the same wrapping language.
> >
> > Perhaps, though I think it depends on the circumstances.
> >
> > For example, in the project I'm working on, I'm wrapping a C++ graphics
> > library using SWIG and
> > wrapping ODE using Pyrex.  My reasoning is that the C++ graphics API is 
> one
> > project, the
> > ODE wrapper is another, and my main project simply imports modules from 
> the
> > other two.
> >
> > In fact, I initially just used Mattias' PyODE without even knowing that it
> > was written
> > using Pyrex -- it was just a .pyd that I imported.  The fact that I am now
> > modifying some of the
> > code in that wrapper doesn't really change anything --  the main project
> > doesn't care where the .pyd
> > files came from or what tools were used to create them.
> >
> > That means we can use the right tool for the job in each case.  Since ODE
> > is written in C, it makes
> > sense to use Pyrex.  Since the graphics library is written in C++, it 
> makes
> > sense to use SWIG.
> > For other things, it makes sense to use Boost.  I could easily see a 
> Python
> > application that
> > imports modules that were created using all three tools, and the
> > application developer doesn't need
> > to know.
> >
> > >So it is a blancing act, do we
> > >shoehorn ODE to fit into the Boost model, or do it the clean and quick 
> way
> > >with Pyrex?
> >
> > I vote for clean and quick.  :-)
> >
> > >Btw, is anybody in the San Francisco area?
> >
> > I'm in Waterloo, Ontario Canada (about an hour west of Toronto).
> >
> >
> > --
> >    Bernie Roehl
> >    University of Waterloo Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> >    Mail: br...@ec...   Voice: (519) 888-4567 x 2607 [work]
> >    URL: http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~broehl
> >
> >
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    Bernie Roehl
    University of Waterloo Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Mail: br...@ec...    Voice:  (519) 888-4567 x 2607 [work]
    URL: http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~broehl