[PyX-devel] Some questions about PyX.

[Andrea R. <ari...@pi...>]

Hi,
I'm Fink package maintainer for PyX and I'm looking into upgrading it 
to version 0.5.1. I'm very busy with my work, nevertheless I hope to 
get it upgraded very soon. In the meanwhile I have some questions; your 
answers can make the upgrade easier.

1) I don't understand well what "C extension module" exactly are. Are 
they C version of some cpu intensive task?

2) How can I decide whether I want to activate them or not?

Last questions are much more related to my personal use of PyX. I've 
looked at PyX source code and (even if I'm not a skilled programmer) it 
seems very promising. AFAICU PyX is at the moment a tool very similar 
to METAPOST, with the big difference that it has a high level interface 
(Python) and a much more modern design. In the (I hope) near future you 
have the intention to add many plotting capabilities to PyX (actually 
some of them are already there) resulting in something like Biggles 
(http://biggles.sourceforge.net/), but much more evoluted. So, at the 
very last, PyX will be a very powerful tool with which we can do figure 
__and__ data plots, I mean METAPOST + (something like) Biggles 
together. Now my questions:

3) Am I wrong? If I'm right, do you have any project plan? I mean, do 
you have any idea about how long the entire path will take?

4) Can we (I mean we = users) contribute to the project? And how?

Thanks in advance,
	Andrea.

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Andrea Riciputi

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