RE: [boost] Re: Is there interest in a decimal floating-point cla ss?
No I can't so I recant :). m.
-----Original Message----- From: David Abrahams [mailto:dave@boost-consulting.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:14 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] Re: Is there interest in a decimal floating-point cla ss?
Max Khesin <MKhesin@liquidnet.com> writes:
I would think the crucial difference is that pthreads pretty much come with the platform, while the C decimal math lib would have to be included with its wrapper's distribution from boost to insure availability - correct me if I am wrong.
Unless you can cite an actual library guideline somewhere that rules out such a wrapper, I guess you're wrong to "doubt boost library guidelines would allow including a wrapper over a C library." Parts of uBlas work that way with FORTRAN libraries, IIUC.
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On Thu, 20 May 2004 15:10:32 -0400, Max Khesin wrote
No I can't so I recant :). m.
From: David Abrahams [mailto:dave@boost-consulting.com]
Unless you can cite an actual library guideline somewhere that rules out such a wrapper, I guess you're wrong to "doubt boost library guidelines would allow including a wrapper over a C library." Parts of uBlas work that way with FORTRAN libraries, IIUC.
You could get the impression from reading the page below that reusing external libraries is against boost policy: http://www.boost.org/more/library_reuse.htm However, it's clear to me from previous list discussion and the fact that libraries like threads, filesystem, and python can't even exist without building on other external libraries. So for the decimal floating point library, as long as the licensing makes sense, I can't see why it would be a problem. Jeff
On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:56:22 -0700 "Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
So for the decimal floating point library, as long as the licensing makes sense, I can't see why it would be a problem.
I do not know about the license restrictions, but if they are anything like what it takes to get the source, I doubt it is very friendly. To download the source, you first have to join the IBM alpha group (the registration wants everything but shoe size). Also, on the download page, there is a link to get a commercial license. Since I did not want to register with them, I still have not looked at the source, but I looked at the old documentation... According to the documentation, it is a reference implementation, so I thought the license would be fairly friendly. Has anyone looked at the license?
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