Python bindings -- I'm stepping back from them

I have just returned to work after a couple of days of illness and went
to commit all the outstanding stuff I had for the Python bindings so
that others could also work on it. This did not go well. In fact, since
Richard and Johan have also been working on it, it went so badly, that I
really just need to throw away all my stuff, since there's no hope of
resolving all the conflicts. There has been much duplication of work and
naturally we didn't end up calling things exactly the same names, so any
hand-wrapped structures need to be redone, etc.

I'm not annoyed about this, since I am the one who's been out of contact
for 48 hours (and it's already been a bit tricky since I am operating on
a diametrically opposite timezone to the crazy Swedes). However, I think
I will not commit any work for the next few days, just to avoid clashes
and wasting my or other peoples' time. I've had to ditch quite a few
hours work on this, so I am not really keen to do that again. My day job
is too busy at the moment for me to also work late into the night in
order to coordinate more closely with the European contributors.

No hard feelings; I just wanted to let people know what I was doing.

Malcolm

-- 
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.