This pull request was created in in 2015, and has had no reviews. This PR is described as an alternative to gh-5457, which had only a couple comments from @juliantaylor, and has also had no activity since early 2015.

@pitrou, are these pull requests still viable? I hesitate to suggest fixing the merge conflicts if it will just end up sitting here unreviewed for a few more years.

Other NumPy devs: the evidence suggests there is no interest in these PRs. OK to close?