Re: [boost] [SoC] BGL project idea

Subject: Re: [boost] [SoC] BGL project idea
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-20 14:54:31

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Eric Wolf wrote:

> Andrew Sutton <andrew.n.sutton_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>>>> Should I integrate those tests and documentation? Will they apply to the
>>>> current version of transitive_reduction?
>>>
>>> No. They fit the transitive_reduction.hpp which is included in the
>>> tarball. Sorry.
>>>
>>
>>  Hi Eric,
>>
>> I'm a little confused about the Trac ticket and its relation to what's in
>> Boost. Is there anything in the Trac ticket that could or should be in
>> trunk?
>
> Hmm. I don't understand the question.
>
> The file transitive_reduction.hpp which is in, for example,
> boost 1.41, was a first try on the transitive reduction. (The algorithm
> there works only for DAGs.) I simply posted the code on this mailing
> list and somebody else added it to boost. ( I don't know who. )
>
> The code included in the Trac Ticket is a far improved version and
> should replace the actual transitive_reduction.hpp. It is still
> far from perfect (or maybe even good), but it is an improvement and
> it has documentation.

I should look at it -- I haven't so far.

> I don't know which rules apply to code in order to decide, wether it
> should be contained in trunk.

Things that people submit normally go in if they're good quality and have 
documentation and everything.

> Maybe you should ask Jeremiah Willcock. He is the maintainer of BGL,
> isn't he? So maybe he should decide, wether the code is added?

Both Andrew and I are maintainers, so either of us can look through your 
code and decide what to do with it.

-- Jeremiah Willcock