Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] [PyOpenGL-Devel] Plan to remove Numeric support (not numpy, Numeric)

[Mike C. F. <mcf...@vr...>]

On 13-07-15 11:21 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Chris Weisiger <cwe...@ms...> wrote:
>> I got PyOpenGL working just fine with Numpy on WinXP 64-bit without any
>> significant difficulties that I can recall. Win7 64-bit was similarly
>> trivial. I see no reason why Numeric support should be continued just
>> because of 64-bit concerns.
> Agreed. And Mike, you are quite right, Numeric is even more poorly
> supported on Win64.
>
> What would be really nice is to support memoryviews (i.e. PEP 3118
> buffers) directly, and maybe even be able to remove direct numpy
> support....
I started work on this quite a while ago, but ReleaseBuffers in my tests 
always wound up producing glibc segfaults, and I just never got back to 
it. If someone feels like hacking on it, the code is in 
OpenGL/arrays/_buffers.py with the FormatHandler in buffers.py

Enjoy,
Mike

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