On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 18:56:10 Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> I think you misunderstood my message.  Of course you need extra
> information to have good presentation of graphs.  And while it
> would be good to separate mathematical information from "graphic"
> one, I understand that it was not practical.  My points are:
>
> - your package could benefit from algoritms
> - I would like algorithms which are not tied to the representation
>   you use now, because:
>   + this representation has efficiency problems
>   + I envision other clients of algorithm part
> - the two points above put some constaints on domains/packages:
>   + it would be wasteful to have two sets of identical algorithms
>     operating just on different data structures, so your graph domain
>     must be able to use algorithms package
>   + but due to representation differences we can not put algoritns
>     into your graph domain, so you will have to accomodate
>     appropriate convertions (including some special handling
>     to restore/preserve graphic information)
>
> I think this will be clearer when I present some code for
> algorithms, then we will have something concrete to look at
> and will see if my ideas couse problems to you (and if yes, then
> how to resolve them).
>
> BTW: I know that time passes by, and if I have too many distractions
> this (adding algorithms) may move past the coming release, but ATM I
> still hope that we can make it (with some tiny delay to the release).

OK, thanks for the clarification, this looks very good.

Martin

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