Re: [Boost-users] PBGL vs (Parallel) BGL-VTK

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] PBGL vs (Parallel) BGL-VTK
From: Randy Heiland (heiland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-18 05:13:40

On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Jeff Baumes wrote:

>> Just out of curiosity what are the main differences in between PBGL
>> and (Parallel) BGL-VTK ? What I am looking for is why not use PBGL
>> directly ? What was the actual issue ?
>
> The goal of PBGL in VTK is to integrate PBGL with VTK's data
> structures and pipeline model. It includes a wrapper around PBGL
> algorithms to conveniently use them from VTK, along with extending
> vtkGraph to be an implementation of PBGL concepts.
>
> Will/Randy may have more to say about it.
>
> Jeff

Jeff has summarized nicely.  I'd only add that we've not wrapped all  
of the PBGL algs yet.

-Randy