Geometry Boost List: Re: [geometry] Run-Time specified geometries

Subject: Re: [geometry] Run-Time specified geometries
From: Bruno Lalande (bruno.lalande_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-25 11:29:59

Hi,

I've indeed started the work on variant awareness and migrated a few
algorithms already. Spent more time on it these last few days. It involves
some rework to make our algorithm resolution mechanism more structured and
consistent across algorithms, in order to solve some of the challenges you
were mentioning. Takes a bit of time but that's all going in a direction I
like - discussed with Barend and he was also positive about it.

To know which algorithms are migrated, just grep boost/geometry/algorithms
for "resolve_variant".

No API change is expected to happen once an algorithm is migrated (only
internal refactorings will happen) so I assume you can safely start using
those that are migrated even though it's not yet documented.

Regarding support_status: basically if you want to know if an algorithm is
specialized for your geometry you just have to check whether
boost::geometry::dispatch::your_algo<your geometries...> derives from
not_yet_implemented, exactly like support_status.cpp does. BUT that doesn't
work yet with variants. This is interesting BTW, as I hadn't realized that
until I read this thread. I'll work on making this possible when all
algorithms will be migrated.

Regards
Bruno