Re: [eigen] 3.0.4 coming soon, testing appreciated

[Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/11/22 Jitse Niesen <jitse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Rhys Ulerich wrote:
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>> P.S. I know it's stupidly minor, but I can I pester someone to fix the
>> pkg-config-related regression
>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=358 ?  Release 3.0.3
>> "fixed" pkg-config for other folks but broke it for me.
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> I fixed this, perhaps, hopefully.
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> Now I fixed a bug, I deserve the right to point to another bug which I want
> to have fixed for 3.0.4 :) I'd like us to give correct results for the 3x3
> eigenvalue problem; see messages "3x3 symmetric eigenvalues Problem" of 31
> Oct - 2 Nov. I did not follow this carefully, so I might be wrong, but my
> impression is that we give very wrong results in some simple cases because
> we have some special code for the 3-by-3 case. If this proves difficult to
> fix in time, perhaps we can just use the general code?

Seconded: special fast paths are only useful if they're reliable enough.

Benoit

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