Re: gsl Development Query

["E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin at netwood dot net>]

Gerard Jungman wrote:

> Uhh... exactly how many lines of code
> have you contributed to GSL lately,
> that you are in a position to measure anything
> related to my effort?

Well, now that you brought it up,
exactly where did you get the idea
for the GSL block, vector view and matrix view objects.
I first proposed the VSIPL block, vector view,
matrix view and tensor view objects
in a presentation before the VSIP Forum in April, 1997.
I implemented the original VSIP portable reference library
which served as the starting point for the implementation
by Randy Judd which you can get on the internet today

    http://www.vsipl.org/

I am the author of
The C++ Matrix class library

    http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/Matrix/

which has been available free of charge on the internet
for over a decade now.  Hundreds of people use it.

I am the author of
The C++ Scalar, Vector, Matrix and Tensor class library

    http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/svmt/

which has been available free of charge in the internet
for over two years now.   Hundreds of people use it.

I am the author of
The ANSI C Numerical Class Library

    http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/svmt/

which is basically the GSL done correctly.

I've contributed.
I've written many more lines of code than you have
and distributed them free of charge for well over a decade now.
If you choose to ignore them, that's your problem not mine.

It isn't any wonder that you have trouble
getting people to contribute to the GSL.
You have no plan.  You have no design.  You have no goals.
At least none that you have or can articulate.
I have very little confidence in the GSL right now.
I don't think that it is going anywhere.
And I don't think anyone else does either.
I don't want to waste my time on a project
that is doomed from the start
and I don't think that anyone else does either.

Please, if you are serious about the GSL,
go back and read my earlier posts to this discussion
and try to answer some of the questions that I asked.
It really will help.