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- Subject: Re: [eigen] Remove Eigen2 support for 3.2?
- From: Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:33:34 -0400
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Is this a heavy maintainance burden or just a wish to simplify the codebase?
In the former case, go ahead and do whatever you need to keep Eigen
easy to maintain; in the latter case, I would suggest giving it a bit
more time and having a transition period where it would be officially
deprecated and complain loudly about it (generate warnings, or even
require people to #define
YES_I_KNOW_EIGEN2_SUPPORT_IS_GOING_AWAY_SOON), and only fully remove
it in the version after (3.3?)
This is just my 2 cents as an industry guy now ;-) People just don't
want their existing code to be broken, and value that much higher than
"cleanliness" and "removing cruft".
Benoit
2012/6/28 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> unless there is any objections, I propose to remove the Eigen2 support
> code in the devel branch, i.e., for the future 3.2 release. I expect
> that all people already moved to Eigen3. The goal is to reduce the
> code base and simplify the implementation logic of some
> classes/functions.
>
> gael
>
>