Re: Something gnulib-ish for numerics

2012-09-18 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/18/2012 06:59 AM, Rhys Ulerich wrote: > Do you think the gnulib infrastructure could be simply adapted to > provide "modules" comprised of numerical algorithms with module > dependencies representing algorithmic dependencies? Yes, it should work. > Does the gnulib > infrastructure impose li

Something gnulib-ish for numerics

2012-09-18 Thread Rhys Ulerich
An odd thought... A lot of folks that write numerical codes need a few algorithms but not the smorgasbord of functionality that ships with, e.g., the GNU Scientific Library. For whatever reason, scientific users seem to have trouble installing such dependencies and prefer source distributions tha