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[Anton Gladky <question228175@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #228175 on Yade changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/228175

Anton Gladky proposed the following answer:
2013/5/5 Bruno Chareyre <question228175@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>"I guess that the core team does not want it in the main branch (at least for now) because CUDA is Nvidia specific and as far as I know not open source."
>
> OpenCL is another possibility for open source code. But anyway, if
> somebody is going to write a collider class working on CUDA and if it
> really gives a boost, I'm sure we will find a convenient way to share it
> somehow, even if it is not included in the base yade package.

It is not really a problem to have a code, which is dependent on non-free
components. It must not be a mandatory for Yade compilation. In other
words, it should be implemented like a new "feature", In this case we can
easily switch it off for "free"-builds.

Cheers,

Anton

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