Re: [Boost-users] boost geometry lib

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost geometry lib
From: Peter Barker (newbarker_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-26 08:27:13

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Barend Gehrels <barend_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for my late reply, was not on this list earlier. Thanks for your
> interest.
>
> As Bruno said we're currently busy with preview 4. There are substantial
> changes internally, but from user perspective the changes are not so large.
>
> Two things I'll mention:
>
> 1)
>>
>> > http://geometrylibrary.geodan.nl/6__transformation__example_8cpp-exampl
>> > e.html
>> > shows the geometry library and uBLAS working together
>
> The transformation example will be changed (and much more simpler, from
> user perspective). The new version has internally transformation
> capacities and strategies can be used to finetune this (still using uBLAS)
>
> 2) if you plan to use the linestrings, note that the algorithms
> currently take line.begin() and line.end(). This is changed in the new
> version to just "line", using the boost range library.
>
> Preview 4 is expected this month or the beginning of February.
>
>
> Barend Gehrels
> Geodan, Amsterdam

That's good to hear - I'll probably replace my stuff with geometrylib
when it's out. Is the Boost mailing list the best one to talk about
geometrylib?

Regards,

Pete