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Hacking Hooke
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Architecture
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To clean up the internals, were going to go crazy on the
object-oriented front, and try to keep the core functionality free of
any dependencies other than the `Python Standard Library`_ and `Numpy`_
/ `Scipy`_.

.. _Python Standard Library: http://docs.python.org/library/
.. _Numpy: http://numpy.scipy.org/
.. _Scipy: http://www.scipy.org/

To make a responsive user interface in parallel with data processing
and possible GUIs, we'll use Python's multiprocessing_ and queue_
modules.  These modules are both new in Python 2.6, but 2.6 usage is
becoming fairly widespread.  Certainly more widespread than any
alternative queue module that I know of.  Since we're leveraging the
power of the standard library, we use configparser_ for the config
files.

.. _multiprocessing: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/multiprocessing.html
.. _queue: http://docs.python.org/library/queue.html
.. _configparser: http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html

On the testing side, the need to stick to the standard library relaxes
(developers can install extra packages), so we can use nose_.  See
the `Testing`_ section for more information.

.. _Testing: testing.txt