[GRASS-PSC] Incubation progress, open issues in Wiki

[Michael Barton]

I don't really know enough on this subject to realistically assess it
impact. However, what Brad suggests sounds very reasonable AFAICT

+0

Michael


On 9/4/07 7:55 PM, "Brad Douglas" <rez at touchofmadness.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 10:05 +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> Hi Arnulf,
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:57:39AM +0200, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I wanted to send a friendly reminder of the open issues in the Wiki at:
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/GRASS_Incubation_Progress#Open_Issues
>>> 
>>> As far as I can see activity wrt to the incubation process has stopped
>>> altogether, there have been no edits in the Wiki for 3 months. I have to
>>> report to the Incubation Committee in my function as mentor and they will
>>> again ask why incubation has stopped. What shall I tell them?
>> 
>> that it didn't stop :) Indeed, we didn't update the Wiki as we
>> should. But currently we are replacing remaining "Numerical Receipes in C"
>> code with new functions.
> 
> BTW, I located more NR code in GRASS.  The eigen and Jacobi routines use
> them.  I've also discovered that the NR routines are inherently
> unstable, but that also applies to most OSS solutions.
> 
> Both Soren and myself would like to replace the BLAS/LAPACK (Fortran
> code) libraries with ATLAS, a tuned C version.  This also gets us away
> from the Fortran issues suffered by gcc4.
> 
> If there are no objections, I would like to go ahead and modify
> configure.in and include/ to reflect this.  Soren has already created a
> good wrapper API for the functionality and has expanded it extensively.
> I didn't note any objections when I queried the devel list, but I think
> this is sufficiently large enough to be voted on by the PSC.
> 
> I really can't complete my imagery/ and lib/gmath API changes until
> ATLAS (or some equivalent..maybe even GSL?) has replaced existing
> BLAS/LAPACK.
> 
>> Some file headers may need update, too, as above page indicates.
> 
> I've been adding them to all files I've touched...and I've touched quite
> a few lately.
> 
>>> I did hope that we might get GRASS through before FOSS4G. Any chance? There
>>> is really not much left to do.
>> 
>> That would be an excellent milestone.
> 
> Agreed.
> 

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