Mathemagix

[Joris van der Hoeven <address@concealed>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:01:54PM +0200, Bernard Mourrain wrote:
> >Please mention more prominently that the support is only at an alpha-stage.
> For sure, it is certainly not the omega.

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> >I also noticed that virtually all compilation options have disappeared,
> >and in particular the optimization options which are necessary
> >for good performance.
> They are back.

I'll test when I have tme. Of course, we also need the SIMD options,
multi-threading options, etc.

> >>* The same process applies for the construction of one package
> >>(cmake ../mmx/the_package).
> >
> >For the moment, only your own packages seem to be supported.
> No, currently the test process is only concerned with basix & mmxlight.
> Once this is working well on different platforms, we will extend it to 
> the other packages.

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I will test when you are ready.

> >Portability to what? Did you succeed any kind of portability
> >which was not achieved by the current autotools-based system?
> >Does everything work on Windows now?
> >
> No local hack of libtool for Mac for instance.

Well, OK, but this hack did solve the problem.

> Tests on virtual windows machine with mingw should be done soon.

That is the one we are really interested in.
And especially the dynamic library issue.

> >Some good news too from our side: we probably found suitable
> >people for both job offers. We will ask them to investigate
> >the autotools and cmake systems more closely and suggest a solution.
> >
> Yes good news.

Finally, one of the people we found got a better offer.
The other one (second offer) is still fine.
But the daily tests will have to wait a little longer.
I personally will not have time to work on the configuration
business for a while.

--Joris