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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:17 -0600, Robert C. Kirby wrote:
> >
> > I downloaded boost, pulled the header files out and dropped them  
> > into my
> > directory and it worked fine, so it appears that no binary  
> > libraries are
> > involved. I did a grep on the header files, and the dependency on  
> > other
> > boost components is limited.
> >
> 
> Is there any license issue to just stuffing the requisite .h files  
> into DOLFIN?
> 

No. The Boost license is more liberal the GPL. You can find it here
http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt.

Garth


> >> Also, templates can create portability/compiler problems if used too
> >> creatively (see blitz).
> >> I have not worked with uBlas, but suggest compiling with a couple of
> >> different versions of g++ on mac/linux/cygwin and also the intel
> >> compiler on some platforms before committing.
> >>
> >
> > Just checked it with the Linux Intel compiler, and indeed Blitz gives
> > error messages. uBlas worked great. Works fine under Cygwin too.
> >
> 
> Wonderful -- I think that it's the configuration of blitz on intel  
> that I remember bombing.
> I wish I had known ublas better when I wrote my c++ version of fiat...
> 
> Rob
> 
> > Garth
> >
> >> That said, I'm very much in favor of doing less code instead of more,
> >> but there can be corner cases in portability and other headaches.
> >>
> >> Rob
> >>
> >>
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