On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@googlemail.com>wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Seth Nickell <snickell@gmail.com> wrote:
With a little work, I think numpy/scipy could be very useful to those of us who have to program on .NET for one reason or another, but 64-bit is currently not supported (at least, not as released).
I'm considering working out 64-bit support, but it appears to me like the numpy-refactor repository isn't on a path to merging with the mainline, and is likely to bit-rot (if it hasn't already). Is anyone working on this, or is NumpyDotNet 'resting' at the moment, so to speak? Its sort of pointless to work on a dead-end branch ;-)
It's my impression that that would indeed be pointless - at least for the near future. If there are still plans to work on the refactor branch, someone please correct me.
I think it is pining for the fjords. It was developed in parallel with numpy and fell way, way behind. We need a good incremental path forward where the two branches are kept much closer together if we do this again. If you are motivated to work over the long term, we eventually want to have a 'base' numpy that can be more easily ported to IronPython and something like the .NET interface is going to be needed if that port is made. There is probably a lot of useful work in there. I'm pretty unclear on the details of these future developments. Revisiting the documentation of the fundamental changes <http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/NumPyRefactoring> would be a good thing to do so we can discuss what parts to pull into numpy or reimplement. Is IronPython development still active? Chuck