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(See accompanying --> +<!-- file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) --> +<html> + <head> + <meta name="generator" content= + "HTML Tidy for Windows (vers 1st August 2002), see www.w3.org"> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../boost.css"> + + <title>Boost.Python - Acknowledgments</title> + </head> + + <body link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080"> + <table border="0" cellpadding="7" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary= + "header"> + <tr> + <td valign="top" width="300"> + <h3><a href="../../../../index.htm"><img height="86" width="277" + alt="C++ Boost" src="../../../../boost.png" border="0"></a></h3> + </td> + + <td valign="top"> + <h1 align="center"><a href="../index.html">Boost.Python</a></h1> + + <h2 align="center">Acknowledgments</h2> + </td> + </tr> + </table> + <hr> + + <p><a href="http://www.boost.org/people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave Abrahams</a> is + the architect, designer, and implementor of <b>Boost.Python</b>.</p> + + <p><a href="mailto:brett.calcott@paradise.net.nz">Brett Calcott</a> + contributed and maintains the Visual Studio project files and + documentation.</p> + + <p><a href="mailto:Gottfried.Ganssauge-at-haufe.de">Gottfried + Ganßauge</a> supplied support for opaque pointer conversions, + complete with documentation and a regression test (and I didn't + even have to ask him for those)! + + <p>Joel de Guzman implemented the <a href="overloads.html">default + argument support</a> and wrote the excellent <a href= + "../tutorial/index.html">tutorial documentation</a>.</p> + + <p><a href="http://www.boost.org/people/ralf_w_grosse_kunstleve.htm">Ralf W. + Grosse-Kunstleve</a> implemented the <a href="pickle.html">pickle + support</a>, and has enthusiastically supported the library since its + birth, contributing to design decisions and providing invaluable + real-world insight into user requirements. Ralf has written some <a href= + "faq.html#question2">extensions</a> for converting C++ containers that I + hope will be incorporated into the library soon. He also implemented the + cross-module support in the first version of Boost.Python. More + importantly, Ralf makes sure nobody forgets the near-perfect synergy of + C++ and Python for solving the problems of large-scale software + construction.</p> + + <p><a href="http://www.boost.org/people/aleksey_gurtovoy.htm">Aleksey Gurtovoy</a> + wrote an incredible C++ <a href="http://www.mywikinet.com/mpl">Template + Metaprogramming Library</a> which allows Boost.Python to perform much of + its compile-time magic. In addition, Aleksey very generously contributed + his time and deep knowledge of the quirks of various buggy compilers to + help us get around problems at crucial moments.</p> + + <p><a href="http://www.boost.org/people/paul_mensonides.htm">Paul Mensonides</a>, + building on the work <a href="http://www.boost.org/people/vesa_karvonen.htm">Vesa + Karvonen</a>, wrote a similarly amazing <a href= + "../../../preprocessor/doc/index.html">Preprocessor Metaprogramming + Library</a>, and generously contributed the time and expertise to get it + working in the Boost.Python library, rewriting much of Boost.Python to + use the new preproccessor metaprogramming constructs and helping us to + work around buggy and slow C++ preprocessors.</p> + + <p><a href="mailto:nicodemus-at-globalite.com.br">Bruno da Silva de + Oliveira</a> contributed the ingenious <a + href="../../pyste/index.html">Pyste</a> ("Pie-Steh") + code generator. + + <p><a href="mailto:nickm@sitius.com">Nikolay Mladenov</a> contributed + <code>staticmethod</code> support.</p> + + <p>Martin Casado solved some sticky problems which allow us to build the + Boost.Python shared library for AIX's crazy dynamic linking model.</p> + + <p><a href="mailto:achim@procoders.net">Achim Domma</a> contributed some + of the <a href="reference.html#object_wrappers">Object Wrappers</a> and + HTML templates for this documentation. Dave Hawkes contributed + inspiration for the use of the <code><a href= + "scope.html#scope-spec">scope</a></code> class to simplify module + definition syntax. Pearu Pearson wrote some of the test cases that are in + the current test suite.</p> + + <p>The development of this version of Boost.Python was funded in part by + the <a href="http://www.llnl.gov/">Lawrence Livermore National + Laboratories</a> and by the <a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/">Computational + Crystallography Initiative</a> at Lawrence Berkeley National + Laboratories.</p> + + <p><a href="http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~koethe/">Ullrich + Koethe</a> had independently developed a similar system. When he + discovered Boost.Python v1, he generously contributed countless hours of + coding and much insight into improving it. He is responsible for an early + version of the support for function overloading and wrote the support for + reflecting C++ inheritance relationships. He has helped to improve + error-reporting from both Python and C++ (we hope to do as well in v2 + again soon), and has designed the original support for exposing numeric + operators, including a way to avoid explicit coercion by means of + overloading.</p> + + <p>The members of the boost mailing list and the Python community + supplied invaluable early feedback. In particular, Ron Clarke, Mark + Evans, Anton Gluck, Chuck Ingold, Prabhu Ramachandran, and Barry Scott + took the brave step of trying to use Boost.Python while it was still in + early stages of development.</p> + + <p>The first version of Boost.Python would not have been possible without + the support of Dragon Systems, which supported its development and + release as a Boost library.</p> + <hr> + + <p>Revised + <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan --> + 26 November, 2002 + <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39359" --> + </p> + + <p><i>© Copyright <a href= + "http://www.boost.org/people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave Abrahams</a> 2002.</i></p> + </body> +</html> + |