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Subject: Re: [boost] [SoC] BGL project idea
From: Matthias Walter (xammy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-11 16:17:58


On 03/11/2010 08:19 PM, Gautam Sewani wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a Computer Science student hoping to contribute to Boost for this
> year's summer of code. I had a few questions regarding the BGL project idea
> (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/SoC2010#Boost.Graph) for SOC 2010.
>
> 1. I can think of only a few places where the suggested algorithms will be
> used. Does the community think that these algorithms are used frequently
> enough to put them in a library? How important does the community consider
> this project?

I'm personally interested in _tests_ for different topologies, e.g.
whether a given graph (or a filtered one) describes a path or a cycle,
etc. I'm using those for different tasks in my current project. Thus I'd
prefer the library to be able to test those, too.

Matthias Walter


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