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Thank you (also on behalf of Gael and Daniel)!
Benoit
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 11:29:06 Andre Krause wrote:
> 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