Re: GSL 2.0 roadmap

[Tuomo Keskitalo <Tuomo.Keskitalo@iki.fi>]

Hello,

thanks for the list. I was wondering that since there will be a new 
major version, this might be a good chance to modify some of the APIs / 
frameworks. Is this OK? For example, when I was implementing msadams and 
msbdf for ode-initval, I had to make some modifications to the 
algorithms in order to fit them into GSL ode-initval framework. It is 
clear that the stepper, control and evolve objects would sometimes 
benefit from mutual communication. Should ode-initval framework be 
changed so that this kind of communication is possible in future?

How long would it be before 2.0 is out, approximately? More or less than 
a year? It might be good idea to keep the 2.0 branch "unstable" for some 
time, before APIs are frozen (if changes to frameworks are OK).

On 08/21/2009 11:41 PM, Brian Gough wrote:

> * Changes for Release 2.0
> Break binary compatibility, but keep source compatibility.

Does "source compatibility" mean that user interfaces / APIs should not 
be changed?

> ** Convert to BZR? (check GPG signing and integrity guarantees)

Do you mean http://bazaar-vcs.org/Bzr ?
Would this mean to abandon git?

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