On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Christopher Barker wrote: > Travis Oliphant wrote: > > It is the > > combination of SciPy+NumPy+Matplotlib+IPython (+ perhaps a good IDE) > > that can succeed at being a MATLAB/IDL replacement for a lot of people. > > > > What is also needed is a good "package" of it all --- like the Enthon > > distribution. This requires quite a bit of thankless work. > > I know Robert put some serious effort into "MacEnthon" a while back, but > is no longer maintaining that, which doesn't surprise me a bit -- that > looked like a LOT of work. > > However, MacEnthon was much bigger than that just the packages Travis > listed above, and I think Travis has that right -- those are the key > ones to do. Let's "just do it!" -- first we need to solve the > Fortran+Universal binary problems though -- that seems to be the > technical sticking point on OS-X
Let me add a comment on the Fortran problem (which I assume to be the (lack of) Fortran compiler problem, right?). I have been working on f2py rewrite to support wrapping Fortran 90 types among other F90 constructs and as a result we have almost a complete Fortran parser in Python. It is relatively easy to use this parser to automatically convert Fortran 77 codes that we have in scipy to C codes whenever no Fortran compiler is available. Due to lack of funding this work has been freezed for now but I'd say that there is a hope to resolve the Fortran compiler issues for any platform in future. Pearu _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
