I Nicolas, I understand your worries. I'm sure that Eigen community will answer you.
Regards, Pierre M 2013/9/5 Nicolas Limare <[email protected]> > Hi, > > > Does it time to consider Eigen 3.2 as stable too ? > > > > As I see portability is better [...] > > Eigen is being successfully used with the following compilers [...] > > Good, it seems to be fairly portable. I was surprised, last year (?), > to learn that new compiler versions sometimes can't compile the code, > but from the comments I received it seems that this is "normal" and > happens for any advanced templated C++ code. It still seems strange to > me, but I won't discuss C++ specifics. > > > Compilation and unit tests makes it as stable as possible. > > It looks good, but only if the unit tests are kept unchanged across > successive versions (does Eigen 3.2 pass the unit tests of Eigen 3.0 > and 3.1?). The underlying question is how long will code written for > Eigen 3.2 be usable with the latest maintained version of Eigen. I'd > like to see a statement like the one by GSL people[1] on the Eigen > website. I'll ask specific questions about that on the eigen > mailing-list, and bring this info here. > > [1] "GSL is a mature library with a stable API. The main emphasis is > on ensuring the stability of the existing functions, tidying up and > fixing any bugs that are reported." > > -- > Nicolas LIMARE - CMLA - ENS Cachan > http://limare.perso.math.cnrs.fr/ > IPOL journal > http://www.ipol.im/ > -> image processing, reproducible research, open science > > -- > IPOL - Image Processing On Line - http://ipol.im/ > > contact [email protected] - http://www.ipol.im/meta/contact/ > news+feeds twitter @IPOL_journal - http://www.ipol.im/meta/feeds/ > announces [email protected] - http://tools.ipol.im/mm/announce/ > discussions [email protected] - http://tools.ipol.im/mm/discuss/ > > -- Regards/Cordialement, Pierre M
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