[Numpy-discussion] ANN: XDress v0.4

[Toby St Clere Smithe]

Eelco Hoogendoorn <hoogendoorn.eelco at gmail.com> writes:
> I have; but if I recall correctly, it does not solve the problem of
> distributing code that uses it, or does it?

Indeed not. But the Boost licence is very liberal, so I just link it
statically; for source distributions, I just ship a minimal copy of the
Boost sources I need.


Toby


> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Toby St Clere Smithe <
> pyviennacl at tsmithe.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Eelco Hoogendoorn <hoogendoorn.eelco at gmail.com> writes:
>> > Thanks for the heads up, I wasn't aware of this project. While
>> boost.python
>> > is a very nice package, its distributability is nothing short of
>> > nonexistent, so its great to have a pure python binding generator.
>> >
>> > One thing which I have often found frustrating is natural ndarray interop
>> > between python and C++. Is there a (planned) mechanism for mapping
>> > arbitrary strided python ndarrays to boost arrays?
>>
>> Have you tried boost.numpy?
>>
>> https://github.com/ndarray/Boost.NumPy
>>
>> I have a fork which builds against Python 3, as well -- though it's
>> mainly used for PyViennaCL, and might need a bit of cleaning.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Toby
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Anthony Scopatz <scopatz at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello All,
>> >>
>> >> I am *extremely *pleased to be able to announce the version 0.4 release
>> >> of xdress.  This version contains much anticipated full support for
>> Clang
>> >> as a parser!  This is almost entirely due to the efforts of Geoffrey
>> >> Irving.  Please thank him the next time you get a chance :)
>> >>
>> >> This release also contains a lot of other goodies that you can read
>> about
>> >> in the release notes below.
>> >>
>> >> Happy Generating!
>> >> Anthony
>> >>
>> >> XDress 0.4 Release Notes<
>> http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#xdress-0-4-release-notes
>> >
>> >>
>> >> XDress is a numpy-aware automatic wrapper generator for C/C++ written in
>> >> pure Python. Currently, xdress may generate Python bindings (via Cython)
>> >> for C++ classes, functions, and certain variable types. It also contains
>> >> idiomatic wrappers for C++ standard library containers (sets, vectors,
>> >> maps). In the future, other tools and bindings will be supported.
>> >>
>> >> The main enabling feature of xdress is a dynamic type system that was
>> >> designed with the purpose of API generation in mind.
>> >>
>> >> Release highlights:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    - Clang support! All kudos to Geoffrey Irving!
>> >>    - NumPy dtypes may be created independently of C++ STL vectors
>> >>    - A complete test suite refactor
>> >>    - Arbitrary source code locations
>> >>    - Global run control files
>> >>    - A plethora of useful bug fixes
>> >>
>> >> This version of xdress is *not* 100% backwards compatible with previous
>> >> versions of xdress. We apologize in the name of progress. It represents
>> ans
>> >> impressive 245 files changed, 44917 aggregate line insertions (+), and
>> 7893
>> >> deletions (-).
>> >>
>> >> Please visit the website for more information: http://xdress.org/
>> >>
>> >> Ask questions on the mailing list:
>> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xdress
>> >>
>> >> Download the code from GitHub: http://github.com/xdress/xdress
>> >>
>> >> XDress is free & open source (BSD 2-clause license) and requires Python
>> >> 2.7+, NumPy 1.5+, Cython 0.19+, and optionally Clang, GCC-XML,
>> pycparser,
>> >> dOxygen, or lxml.
>> >>  New Features<
>> http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#new-features>
>> >> Clang Support<
>> http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#clang-support>
>> >>
>> >> Through the herculean efforts of Geoffrey Irving xdress finally has
>> full,
>> >> first-class Clang/LLVM support! This is major advancement as it allows
>> >> xdress to wrap more modern versions of C++ than GCC-XML can handle.
>> Because
>> >> of deficiencies in the existing libclang and Python bindings it was
>> >> necessary for us to fork libclang for xdress in the short term. We hope
>> to
>> >> integrate these changes upstream. Clang versions 3.2 - 3.4 are
>> supported.
>> >> Independent NumPy Dtypes<
>> http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#independent-numpy-dtypes
>> >
>> >>
>> >> In previous versions of xdress, to create a dtype of type T the user
>> >> needed to declare the desire for a wrapper of an STL vector of type T.
>> >> These two desires have now been separated. It is now possible to create
>> a
>> >> dtype via the dtypes run control parameter. STL vectors are still
>> wrapped
>> >> via dtypes. See the dtypes module for more information.
>> >> Shiny New Test Suite<
>> http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#shiny-new-test-suite>
>> >>
>> >> The xdress test suite has been completely revamped to include both unit
>> >> and integration tests which are run for all available parsers. The
>> >> integration tests are accomplished though two fake projects - cproj and
>> >> cppproj - on which the xdress CLI is run. These tests are now fully
>> >> platform independent, unlike the previous BASH-based test suite.
>> >> Source Paths<
>> http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#source-paths>
>> >>
>> >> Source file paths are now given by either their absolute or relative
>> path.
>> >> This allows source code to be located anywhere on the user's file system
>> >> and enable the wrapping of dependencies or externally supplied
>> libraries as
>> >> needed. The run control parametersourcedir has been deprecated.
>> >> Global Run Control Files<
>> http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#global-run-control-files
>> >
>> >>
>> >> It is sometimes useful to be able to set system-wide run control
>> >> parameters. XDress will now search the following files in order of
>> >> increasing precedence.
>> >>
>> >>    - $HOME/.xdressrc
>> >>    - $HOME/.xdressrc.py
>> >>    - $HOME/.config/xdressrc
>> >>    - $HOME/.config/xdressrc.py
>> >>
>> >> $HOME is the user's home directory. Settings in the project run control
>> >> file take precedence over the values here.
>> >>  Major Bug Fixes<
>> http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#major-bug-fixes>
>> >>
>> >>    - Debug file now always written when in debug mode.
>> >>    - STL sets of custom types now allowed.
>> >>    - Template parameters now allowed to be enum values.
>> >>    - Allow classes with no default constructor.
>> >>
>> >> Join in the Fun!<
>> http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#join-in-the-fun>
>> >>
>> >> If you are interested in using xdress on your project (and need help),
>> >> contributing back to xdress, starting up a development team, or writing
>> >> your own code generation plugin tool, please let us know. Participation
>> is
>> >> very welcome!
>> >>  Authors <http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#authors>
>> >>
>> >>    - Anthony Scopatz <http://scopatz.com/>
>> >>    - Geoffrey Irving *
>> >>    - James Casbon *
>> >>    - Kevin Tew *
>> >>    - Spencer Lyon
>> >>    - John Wiggins
>> >>    - Matt McCormick
>> >>    - Brad Buran
>> >>    - Chris Harris *
>> >>    - Gerald Dalley *
>> >>    - Micky Latowicki *
>> >>    - Mike C. Fletcher *
>> >>    - Robert Schwarz *
>> >>
>> >> An * indicates a first time contributor.
>> >> Links <http://xdress.org/previous/0.4_release_notes.html#links>
>> >>
>> >>    1. Homepage - http://xdress.org/
>> >>    2. Mailing List - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xdress
>> >>    3. GitHub Organization - https://github.com/xdress
>> >>
>> >>
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