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Re: Interpolation interface


In the long run there should be be something like that, as there was
for SLATEC -- we will have to see how things go when we have released
version 1.0.  Without an existing codebase to refer to the design
problems are too unfocused.

E. Robert Tisdale writes:
 > Gerard Jungman wrote:
 >  [snip] > We encourage user participation...  [snip] > Anyway, we
 > appreciate the input.
 >  I don't doubt your sincerity but you must realize that your
 > remarks sound hollow to the GSL User Group (GSLUG pronounced
 > "slug".)
 >  The GSLUG does not "own" the GSL API.  The GSL developers (just
 > you and Brian Gough now) own the GSL API and determine what gets
 > into the GSL and what doesn't.  This discourages participation by
 > GSL users.  If you want to encourage participation in GSL design
 > and development, you should yield ownership to the GSLUG and let
 > them decide, collectively, what goes into the API and what doesn't.
 > The problem is that I don't know how you would determine who is a
 > member of the GSLUG and who isn't -- who has the right to
 > participate (vote?)  and who doesn't.  Maybe you could require
 > GSLUG members to physically appear at regular meetings (at LANL or
 > some neutral site) to vote on what gets into the GSL API.  Maybe
 > you could require GSLUG members to distribute a significant
 > application under the GPL which uses the GSL API.
 >


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