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| 26 | <h1 align="center"><a href="../index.html">Boost.Python</a></h1> |
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| 28 | <h2 align="center">Acknowledgments</h2> |
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| 34 | <p><a href="../../../../people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave Abrahams</a> is |
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| 35 | the architect, designer, and implementor of <b>Boost.Python</b>.</p> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <p><a href="mailto:brett.calcott@paradise.net.nz">Brett Calcott</a> |
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| 38 | contributed and maintains the Visual Studio project files and |
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| 39 | documentation.</p> |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | <p><a href="mailto:Gottfried.Ganssauge-at-haufe.de">Gottfried |
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| 42 | Ganßauge</a> supplied support for opaque pointer conversions, |
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| 43 | complete with documentation and a regression test (and I didn't |
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| 44 | even have to ask him for those)! |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | <p>Joel de Guzman implemented the <a href="overloads.html">default |
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| 47 | argument support</a> and wrote the excellent <a href= |
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| 48 | "../tutorial/index.html">tutorial documentation</a>.</p> |
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| 50 | <p><a href="../../../../people/ralf_w_grosse_kunstleve.htm">Ralf W. |
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| 51 | Grosse-Kunstleve</a> implemented the <a href="pickle.html">pickle |
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| 52 | support</a>, and has enthusiastically supported the library since its |
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| 53 | birth, contributing to design decisions and providing invaluable |
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| 54 | real-world insight into user requirements. Ralf has written some <a href= |
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| 55 | "faq.html#question2">extensions</a> for converting C++ containers that I |
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| 56 | hope will be incorporated into the library soon. He also implemented the |
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| 57 | cross-module support in the first version of Boost.Python. More |
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| 58 | importantly, Ralf makes sure nobody forgets the near-perfect synergy of |
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| 59 | C++ and Python for solving the problems of large-scale software |
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| 60 | construction.</p> |
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| 61 | |
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| 62 | <p><a href="../../../../people/aleksey_gurtovoy.htm">Aleksey Gurtovoy</a> |
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| 63 | wrote an incredible C++ <a href="http://www.mywikinet.com/mpl">Template |
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| 64 | Metaprogramming Library</a> which allows Boost.Python to perform much of |
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| 65 | its compile-time magic. In addition, Aleksey very generously contributed |
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| 66 | his time and deep knowledge of the quirks of various buggy compilers to |
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| 67 | help us get around problems at crucial moments.</p> |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | <p><a href="../../../../people/paul_mensonides.htm">Paul Mensonides</a>, |
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| 70 | building on the work <a href="../../../../people/vesa_karvonen.htm">Vesa |
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| 71 | Karvonen</a>, wrote a similarly amazing <a href= |
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| 72 | "../../../preprocessor/doc/index.html">Preprocessor Metaprogramming |
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| 73 | Library</a>, and generously contributed the time and expertise to get it |
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| 74 | working in the Boost.Python library, rewriting much of Boost.Python to |
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| 75 | use the new preproccessor metaprogramming constructs and helping us to |
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| 76 | work around buggy and slow C++ preprocessors.</p> |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | <p><a href="mailto:nicodemus-at-globalite.com.br">Bruno da Silva de |
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| 79 | Oliveira</a> contributed the ingenious <a |
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| 80 | href="../../pyste/index.html">Pyste</a> ("Pie-Steh") |
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| 81 | code generator. |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | <p><a href="mailto:nickm@sitius.com">Nikolay Mladenov</a> contributed |
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| 84 | <code>staticmethod</code> support.</p> |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | <p>Martin Casado solved some sticky problems which allow us to build the |
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| 87 | Boost.Python shared library for AIX's crazy dynamic linking model.</p> |
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| 88 | |
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| 89 | <p><a href="mailto:achim@procoders.net">Achim Domma</a> contributed some |
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| 90 | of the <a href="reference.html#object_wrappers">Object Wrappers</a> and |
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| 91 | HTML templates for this documentation. Dave Hawkes contributed |
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| 92 | inspiration for the use of the <code><a href= |
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| 93 | "scope.html#scope-spec">scope</a></code> class to simplify module |
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| 94 | definition syntax. Pearu Pearson wrote some of the test cases that are in |
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| 95 | the current test suite.</p> |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | <p>The development of this version of Boost.Python was funded in part by |
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| 98 | the <a href="http://www.llnl.gov/">Lawrence Livermore National |
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| 99 | Laboratories</a> and by the <a href="http://cci.lbl.gov/">Computational |
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| 100 | Crystallography Initiative</a> at Lawrence Berkeley National |
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| 101 | Laboratories.</p> |
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| 102 | |
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| 103 | <p><a href="http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~koethe/">Ullrich |
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| 104 | Koethe</a> had independently developed a similar system. When he |
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| 105 | discovered Boost.Python v1, he generously contributed countless hours of |
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| 106 | coding and much insight into improving it. He is responsible for an early |
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| 107 | version of the support for function overloading and wrote the support for |
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| 108 | reflecting C++ inheritance relationships. He has helped to improve |
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| 109 | error-reporting from both Python and C++ (we hope to do as well in v2 |
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| 110 | again soon), and has designed the original support for exposing numeric |
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| 111 | operators, including a way to avoid explicit coercion by means of |
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| 112 | overloading.</p> |
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| 113 | |
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| 114 | <p>The members of the boost mailing list and the Python community |
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| 115 | supplied invaluable early feedback. In particular, Ron Clarke, Mark |
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| 116 | Evans, Anton Gluck, Chuck Ingold, Prabhu Ramachandran, and Barry Scott |
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| 117 | took the brave step of trying to use Boost.Python while it was still in |
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| 118 | early stages of development.</p> |
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| 119 | |
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| 120 | <p>The first version of Boost.Python would not have been possible without |
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| 121 | the support of Dragon Systems, which supported its development and |
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| 122 | release as a Boost library.</p> |
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| 125 | <p>Revised |
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| 131 | <p><i>© Copyright <a href= |
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| 132 | "../../../../people/dave_abrahams.htm">Dave Abrahams</a> 2002.</i></p> |
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