Somewhere in the E.U., le 13/04/2005 Bonjour In article <015d01c53f47$b005b880$b3560252@fuji>, "John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
John, this is great stuff! What's your timeline for migrating from boost-sandbox to the main repository?
To be honest I haven't given it much thought, I was planning on asking for a review quite soon, but I want to finish off a rewrite of the type traits docs in time for 1.33 if I can.
In any case given the 1.33 schedule, I don't think there's any way this can be reviewed and added in time for that release (unless anyone thinks otherwise, or the release is badly delayed or something).
I also need to sort out with Hubert Holin, what I'm going to do with the new complex number code (add it to his special functions library, or something else).
I believe integration is the simplest route. How would you want to proceed? I can update the code documentation fairly rapidly, but the "background" (mathematical) part may take some time, especially if I try to produce explanatory figures. At any rate, if we are to feature-freeze in 48 hours, the former may just be possible but certainly not the later. I believe text explaining that some of the functions in the "Special Functions" library are actually part of the TR1 should not prove to be too confusing, and relevant passages of the TR1 could perhaps point to the "Special Functions" library documentation for additional information (not instead of the information you already provide). The body of code you produced is far greater (in more ways than one ;-) ) than what I have done, so perhaps it would be simpler if you merged my code into yours rather than the other way around. One sticking point perhaps would be that of the namespace these things live in, as I believe my implementations should be moved to ::std::tr1 as well, as per 8.16.4 of the TR1, and this raises the possibility of name conflicts. The sinus cardinal and hyperbolic sinus cardinal should preferably stay in ::boost::math, as they have not been introduced into the TR1, and quaternions and octonions depend upon them (though I could update that as well, of course). If I get around to adding valarray support for some of these functions, they would live in ::boost::math as well.
Thanks for the interest,
John.
Merci Hubert