Re: [boost] Formal Review: Boost.Polygon starts today August 24, 2009

Subject: Re: [boost] Formal Review: Boost.Polygon starts today August 24, 2009
From: Simonson, Lucanus J (lucanus.j.simonson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-27 16:15:12

Andreas Fabri wrote:
> Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
>> Andreas Fabri wrote:
>>> Hi Luke,
>>> 
>>> thank you for your explanations for the 45 degree case. You have a
>>> nice solution. I guess for the general case I have to read the
>>> BoostCon paper first. 
>>> 
>>> andreas
>> 
>> Thank you for saying so.
>> 
>> As requested, I haved added a test case for which CGAL fails to
>> subversion 
>> 
>> https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/gtl/forcgal.cpp
> 
> Hi Luke,
> 
> Using CGAL with just floating point arithmetic is rather nonsense,
> especially when you test robustness.
> 
> I guess I need a recent version of boost, plus sandbox/gtl,
> in order that it compiles?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> andreas

I did try CGAL with other kernel types and found that the same exception was thrown.  I probably should have mentioned that.  I used boost 1.35 with CGAL 3.3.1 and sandbox gtl.  I'm working on getting the dependency on gmp straightened out to try the other kernels again.

Luke