Re: Blitz++ question

From: Todd Veldhuizen (tveldhui@oonumerics.org)
Date: Mon Jul 13 1998 - 09:40:53 EST


> Question:
> Does Blitz++ have any support for sparce matrices? Are there any
> plans for future support?

Blitz doesn't support sparse matrices. Currently this is in
the "wishful thinking" category (i.e. would be nice to have,
but nobody has volunteered to implement it). I'd like to
implement them, but my to-do is fairly crowded for the
near future.

> I would be a commercial user, and I would be interested in a
> "license more friendly to commercial users." Are you aware of the
> LGPL? See http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/copyleft/lgpl.html for more
> info. It meets your requirement of "the core of the license (free
> software, open source) will remain unchanged."

Thanks. Some people object to the LGPL, because it causes
difficulties for template-based libraries like blitz. I think
people still have to distribute all of blitz in source-code
form with their software, which is silly.

Cheers,
Todd



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