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Dear all,<br>
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).<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div> This could be a good compromise.</div></div></div></div>