Re: ?feasibility of numerical lib on the top of glib

["Sergey I. Panov" <sipan mit edu>]

Yes, but so far glib was used only in Gtk+. If people will start using
it for other medium and big size projects they would find a few rough
corners and would start contributing patches that would require some
adjustments in Gtk+.

  Sergey Panov 


Mark Brook wrote:
> 
> Thats the idea behind the STL for C++.  Maybe glib can become a standard
> container set for C.
> 
> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Sergei O. Naoumov wrote:
> 
> > Sergey Panov wrote:
> > >
> > > glib has collection of nicely implemented container objects.
> > > What are advantages and disadvantages of assembling numerical
> > > library on the top of glib?
> > 
> > The only disadvantage I see is exactly what you stated -- the
> > dependence on glib. Some might not like it, saying "well, if I
> > want to use your, say, matrix multiplication, I'd have to go
> > and install glib." For me, personally, this is not an argument but it
> > might be for someone else. I think that there is no need to
> > reinvent the wheel, and if there is a good code already that can do
> > much of what you need -- use it.