Re: [ublas] will parts of sandbox move to boost?

From: Sorkin Dima (dsorkin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-23 15:59:48

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Gunter Winkler wrote:
> Am Freitag, 23. März 2007 19:35 schrieb Sorkin Dima:
>> Hi.
>>   Is there any work to submit sandbox files
>> ( especially "boost/numeric/bindings/traits" ) to BOOST ?
>
> The question is: Do we really need the complicated bindings-traits logic
> if we add support for (vendor) BLAS to uBLAS?

But BLAS is not the only math-lib to which one wants to pass vectors.
Traits are important building block for creating interface for any
legacy lib. It could be helpful to "standartize" it.

See for example the following example
http://ganymed.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/pipermail/dealii/2007/001837.html
(thread starts with
  http://ganymed.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/pipermail/dealii/2007/001822.html
)

Regards,
  Dima.