diff --git a/docs/VIPSModel.md b/docs/VIPSModel.md index c0c949b3ba5d602130de5d800276aa6c4d8bfd55..dff27bf0df951061a564e3474debd077278a5f6a 100644 --- a/docs/VIPSModel.md +++ b/docs/VIPSModel.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <img src="illustrations/vipslogo_512.png" alt="VIPS Logo" height="250"/> # How to implement a VIPS Model in Python -VIPS was originally written in Java, and the models to be deployed were also required to be written in a language that could run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This is in principle [a lot of languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages), but only a few of those are practical to integrate with the [original VIPSCore server](https://gitlab.nibio.no/VIPS/VIPSCore). Back in the early 2010s, Python was considered to work well on JVM, but this is no longer the case, as Jython is only compatible with Python <= 2.7. Python has since then become widely used for numeric analysis and model development, and the number of model implementers with Python skills vastly outnumbers Java mastering model developers. +VIPS was originally written in Java, and the models to be deployed were also required to be written in a language that could run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). This is in principle [a lot of languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages), but only a few of those are practical to integrate with the [original VIPSCore server](https://gitlab.nibio.no/VIPS/VIPSCore). Back in the early 2010s, Python was considered to work well on JVM, but this is no longer the case, as Jython is only compatible with Python <= 2.7. Python has since then become widely used for numeric analysis and model development, and model implementers with Python skills vastly outnumber Java mastering model developers. To resolve this, we have reimplemented the [VIPSCore web services in Python](https://gitlab.nibio.no/VIPS/VIPSCore-Python), allowing models implemented in Python to be run on/from that server. The web service endpoints of VIPSCore-Python are (or should be) identical to the original VIPSCore service.