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diff --git a/ext/pybind11/README.md b/ext/pybind11/README.md index cfe3f1519..447788240 100644 --- a/ext/pybind11/README.md +++ b/ext/pybind11/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ [](http://pybind11.readthedocs.org/en/master/?badge=master) [](http://pybind11.readthedocs.org/en/stable/?badge=stable) +[](https://gitter.im/pybind/Lobby) [](https://travis-ci.org/pybind/pybind11) [](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/wjakob/pybind11) @@ -24,12 +25,12 @@ become an excessively large and unnecessary dependency. Think of this library as a tiny self-contained version of Boost.Python with everything stripped away that isn't relevant for binding generation. Without -comments, the core header files only require ~2.5K lines of code and depend on -Python (2.7 or 3.x) and the C++ standard library. This compact implementation -was possible thanks to some of the new C++11 language features (specifically: -tuples, lambda functions and variadic templates). Since its creation, this -library has grown beyond Boost.Python in many ways, leading to dramatically -simpler binding code in many common situations. +comments, the core header files only require ~4K lines of code and depend on +Python (2.7 or 3.x, or PyPy2.7 >= 5.7) and the C++ standard library. This +compact implementation was possible thanks to some of the new C++11 language +features (specifically: tuples, lambda functions and variadic templates). Since +its creation, this library has grown beyond Boost.Python in many ways, leading +to dramatically simpler binding code in many common situations. Tutorial and reference documentation is provided at [http://pybind11.readthedocs.org/en/master](http://pybind11.readthedocs.org/en/master). @@ -58,12 +59,15 @@ pybind11 can map the following core C++ features to Python ## Goodies In addition to the core functionality, pybind11 provides some extra goodies: -- pybind11 uses C++11 move constructors and move assignment operators whenever - possible to efficiently transfer custom data types. +- Python 2.7, 3.x, and PyPy (PyPy2.7 >= 5.7) are supported with an + implementation-agnostic interface. - It is possible to bind C++11 lambda functions with captured variables. The lambda capture data is stored inside the resulting Python function object. +- pybind11 uses C++11 move constructors and move assignment operators whenever + possible to efficiently transfer custom data types. + - It's easy to expose the internal storage of custom data types through Pythons' buffer protocols. This is handy e.g. for fast conversion between C++ matrix classes like Eigen and NumPy without expensive copy operations. @@ -92,15 +96,15 @@ In addition to the core functionality, pybind11 provides some extra goodies: ## Supported compilers -1. Clang/LLVM (any non-ancient version with C++11 support) -2. GCC (any non-ancient version with C++11 support) -3. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or newer +1. Clang/LLVM 3.3 or newer (for Apple Xcode's clang, this is 5.0.0 or newer) +2. GCC 4.8 or newer +3. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 or newer 4. Intel C++ compiler 16 or newer (15 with a [workaround](https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/276)) 5. Cygwin/GCC (tested on 2.5.1) ## About -This project was created by [Wenzel Jakob](https://www.mitsuba-renderer.org/~wenzel/). +This project was created by [Wenzel Jakob](http://rgl.epfl.ch/people/wjakob). Significant features and/or improvements to the code were contributed by Jonas Adler, Sylvain Corlay, @@ -114,8 +118,9 @@ Dean Moldovan, Ben Pritchard, Jason Rhinelander, Boris Schäling, -Pim Schellart, and -Ivan Smirnov. +Pim Schellart, +Ivan Smirnov, and +Patrick Stewart. ### License |