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| <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> |
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| <p><a href="mailto:brett.calcott@paradise.net.nz">Brett Calcott</a> |
| contributed and maintains the Visual Studio project files and |
| documentation.</p> |
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| <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)! |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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. |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <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> |
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| <p><i>© Copyright <a href= |
| "http://www.boost.org/people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave Abrahams</a> 2002.</i></p> |
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