On 26/06/2008, at 2:07 AM, Christian Schulte wrote: > Now: What do you want? How can you help us? Are we missing something > really > important? Is there something fundamentally wrong?
Firstly, let me thank you for a fabulous tool and better support than any free software I've encountered before. Research software is not usually any near the quality of Gecode and you deserve high acclaim for your work. As for improvements, in the short term I think the push to fill out the documentation is important. In the longer term, it would be good to see more visualisation and debugging tools. If you make an error in your constraint definitions, at the moment it is very difficult to detect and isolate the problem. It is also hard to visualise whether your constraint system is propagating and searching efficiently. It would be very nice to have a graphical way to watch the propagation of information around the constraint graph. Like any programming language, there are good and bad ways of writing constraint systems. At the moment the modelling problem remains a black art, only really properly understood by a few. I think it will remain that way as long as constraint propagation remains a black box. Solving this may require a significant about of HCI work, but I think it would be very valuable in the long run. Malcolm _______________________________________________ Gecode users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.gecode.org/mailman/listinfo/gecode-users
