Re: [PyOpenGL-Devel] Plan to remove Numeric support (not numpy, Numeric)

Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:21:48 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.opengl.user
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Chris Weisiger <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got PyOpenGL working just fine with Numpy on WinXP 64-bit without any
> significant difficulties that I can recall. Win7 64-bit was similarly
> trivial. I see no reason why Numeric support should be continued just
> because of 64-bit concerns.

Agreed. And Mike, you are quite right, Numeric is even more poorly
supported on Win64.

What would be really nice is to support memoryviews (i.e. PEP 3118
buffers) directly, and maybe even be able to remove direct numpy
support....

-Chris



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