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

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:28 -0600, Robert C. Kirby wrote:
> 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.
> 

You can use the multi_array library from Boost for this.
http://www.boost.org/libs/multi_array/doc/index.html

Garth

> 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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