Re: [eigen] beta1 !

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Congratulations for this milestone !
keep on the fantastic work!

greetings,
	andre


Benoît Jacob wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> After more than one year since Eigen2 development restarted from scratch, here 
> is beta1 !
> 
> As usual: http://eigen.tuxfamily.org
> 
> We are clearly in polishing mode. Many bugs got fixed, many portability issues 
> solved, and many API refinements, as a result of having now quite a number of 
> projects using Eigen 2. There are also some new developments. The 
> documentation saw massive improvements, especially in the form of a large 
> tutorial.
> 
> Detailed release notes:
> 
> * various improvements in the Sparse module by Daniel Gomez though this
>   module won't be part of the 2.0 release. It's more 2.1 stuff and is
>   eagerly awaited by a few projects already (Krita, Step).
> * new: "select" expression and comparisons to scalar
> * new: print of matrices with custom formatting
> * big improvements in the Geometry module, in particular:
>  - new: Hyperplane, ParametrizedLine, Translation, Scaling
>  - various other API improvements in Quaternion and Transform
>  - add support for Qt's QTransform
>  - s/someOrthogonal/unitOrthogonal/
> * Altivec vectorization has been resurrected (Konstantinos Margaritis)
> * LargeBit flag and related typedefs have been removed
> * various bug fixes and documentation improvements, in particular
>   the tutorials are now ready to be used, though they are still work
>   in progress.
> 
> The 2.0 release should happen later this fall, and in any case before the 
> KOffice 2.0 release.
> 
> Cheers,
> Benoit
> 
> 
> 




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