[IPOL discuss] GSL for IPOL (and libtiff 4.x, but not libpng 1, 6, x)

[Pierre Moulon]

I Nicolas,

I understand your worries.
I'm sure that Eigen community will answer you.

Regards,
Pierre M


2013/9/5 Nicolas Limare <nicolas.limare at cmla.ens-cachan.fr>

> Hi,
>
> > Does it time to consider Eigen 3.2 as stable too ?
> >
> > As I see portability is better [...]
> > Eigen is being successfully used with the following compilers [...]
>
> Good, it seems to be fairly portable. I was surprised, last year (?),
> to learn that new compiler versions sometimes can't compile the code,
> but from the comments I received it seems that this is "normal" and
> happens for any advanced templated C++ code. It still seems strange to
> me, but I won't discuss C++ specifics.
>
> > Compilation and unit tests makes it as stable as possible.
>
> It looks good, but only if the unit tests are kept unchanged across
> successive versions (does Eigen 3.2 pass the unit tests of Eigen 3.0
> and 3.1?). The underlying question is how long will code written for
> Eigen 3.2 be usable with the latest maintained version of Eigen. I'd
> like to see a statement like the one by GSL people[1] on the Eigen
> website. I'll ask specific questions about that on the eigen
> mailing-list, and bring this info here.
>
> [1] "GSL is a mature library with a stable API. The main emphasis is
> on ensuring the stability of the existing functions, tidying up and
> fixing any bugs that are reported."
>
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Regards/Cordialement,
Pierre M
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