Re: [gsoc2020] Answer to histogram design questions from Slack

From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-05-18 19:21:51

On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 17:01, Debabrata Mandal
<mandaldebabrata123_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > Any particular reason why you suggest to implement the histogram features
> > as an extension and not in the core library?
> >
>
> I was thinking if we wanted to add support for other container types in the
> future, for example, a multi-dimensional matrix class, Boost.Histogram etc.
> it would be better to extend the current implementation. And interfaces to
> external libraries be best provided in the extension.

Yes, those could be an extension (aka optional features).

> Mainly, it is since most of the core files revolve around imp GIL
> constructs and histogram seems like an extension.
> Does this seem reasonable?

I think we should try to integrate the dependency-less features into GIL core.

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net