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- Subject: Re: [eigen] 3.2.0-beta1 released!
- From: Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 19:39:14 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Sameer Agarwal <sameeragarwal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I am not sure about the boost dependency. Don't get me wrong, I love
>>> boost and use it pretty much every day but imposing this quite large
>>> dependency on every Eigen user would be a quite big change. The main issue
>>> is that the individual boost libraries are not well self-contained and quite
>>> often result in depending not only on the part that you'ld lilke to use but
>>> also on a whole bunch of other boost libraries. We would also most likely
>>> all of a sudden introduce link dependencies whereas Eigen as it stands today
>>> is a header only library.
>
>
> Parts of Eigen already conditionally depend on external libraries, e.g.,
> SuiteSparse, why can't the dependency on Boost be made conditional too?
Thats's what I had in mind. The ordering method of SimplicialLDLT (and
the others) can be changed via the respective template parameter. So I
imagined a BGLSupport module that would provides new ordering
alternatives.
gael