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["Robert C. Kirby" <kirby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote:

> 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.

Then the easiest thing is to just stuff (with proper credit) ublas.h  
and whatever else we need into DOLFIN.

I think the reason I didn't use ublas earlier is that I needed higher- 
dimensional arrays, which blitz provided.  I only realized after the  
fact that there were portability problems.

Rob

> 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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