[IPOL discuss] OpenCV and IPOL

[Juan Cardelino]

>
> Dear all,
> in my opinion we should allow GSL [1], since it implements many of the
> operations needed in image processing or CV programs (eigensystems,
> minimization, wavelets, linear algebra, least-squares fitting, splines,
> etc).
>
> The library now is in its major version 1, what means that is considered
> to be stable. They have the compromise not to break the API and being
> always compatible at the same major version.
>
> It started on 1996 and since 2013 it hasn't gone to major version 1, so I
> think we can expect the API to be really stable.
>
> For the Boost library, I'm not so confident. They don't have any
> compromise not to break their APIs and the library is being developed very
> actively. In my opinion, we should wait until it's more stable before
> adopting it. Hopefully, some of its parts might be adopted by the C++
> standard library.
>
> And about openCV, I'd like to read to opinion of people that knows it well
> and if we can expect its API to be stable.
>
>
Just a minor comment regarding Boost. I've been exploring it recently and
it seems that they provide a 'boost copy (bcp)' which allows to extract
only the required files (.h, .cpp) related to your concrete application, in
order to ship them with it.
 This could be a good compromise.
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