Hi Steven. Thanks for getting to us about it. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Steven Jackson <stevenjackson121@gmail.com> wrote:
I know there is no current plan to implement scipy in pypy, but searching the PyPy website, I was not able to find the reason.
If it is not to be included as a feature due to lack of interest or developer time, I am offering to begin rewriting scipy in pure python (I have quite a bit of free time to do this). If it has been discussed and actively excluded from pypy, I would like to know that before I waste too much time rewriting it.
I have an active interest in being able to use some modules which depend on scipy while using the PyPy interpreter (especially pyBrain). I have seen the hack on the pypy blog:
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/12/plotting-using-matplotlib-from-pypy.htm...
I could simply use the hack myself, but unless there's a reason not too, I think it'd be nice to have scipy available as a pure python module (perhaps called scipypy in the same manner as numpy).
-- Steven Jackson
I would *think* that extending such a hack is the best way forward, but I'm not 100% sure about it. Numpy also requires finishing and the work has stalled recently (it's almost exclusively my fault, I have been doing other stuff recently), but we're definitely looking forward to implement a way of having scipy work one way or another. Btw - I'm not aware, but how hard would it be to port scipy to pure python & pure C with cffi in between? Cheers, fijal