Re: [boost] geometry classes and computational geometry

From: Gregory Seidman (gseidman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-21 11:32:21

Mark D Rintoul sez:
} Gregory Seidman wrote:
} > 
} > Has anyone taken a look at CGAL, in terms of a templated CG package which
} > plays nice with the STL? I've heard good things about it, and I was
} > impressed with the talk by one of the architects which I attended. Their
} > web page is, perhaps unsurprisingly, www.cgal.org.
} > 
} > --Greg
} 
} 	It is a good package, and from what I understand, has a lot
} of work put into it.  But it is basically part of a business now (as
} far as I understand it), and there are some basic things that would
} be nice to have unrestricted usage for.

It looks like the most recent versions are restricted, but a somewhat older
version (v1.2) is freely licensed (commercial and other uses). This may be
a reasonable starting point for boost.

} 			Danny
--Greg