Last year I submitted a proposal for Boost.Matrix as a GSoC project, that provoked quite a bit discussion. Considering the fact that it wasn't unanimously rejected, and that a few things have changed since then (Boost.Geometry acceptance) as did my skills, I'd like to take the liberty of resubmitting my proposal to the list, with a request for comments. The proposal follows:
Hi Kornel, I think this is a fine idea for a SoC project. It's certainly much more focused than the patterns proposal from your previous post :) I would encourage you to develop this proposal ahead of the other. This already seems very clear and would probably make a good submission as is. That said, this will probably (hopefully) generate a lot of feedback again this year. I realize that the proposal will not satisfy everybody's needs, nor will it compete with some of the more mature LA libraries out there, but I think it would provide a nice starting point for a larger, more feature rich matrix library. Andrew Sutton andrew.n.sutton@gmail.com