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Re: question on GSL development
- From: Jordi Burguet Castell <jburguet at cipf dot es>
- To: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: Francisco Yepes Barrera <paco dot yepes at enernova dot it>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:45:30 +0200
- Subject: Re: question on GSL development
- References: <m3slw0i0jx.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
Hi Paco,
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 10:52, Francisco Yepes Barrera wrote:
> I read in the GSL website that the development of the library is
> considered complete, fundamentally. I'm thinking in the development of
> functions related to neural networks (backpropagation) and genetic
> algorithms routines (genetic operators as mutation, crossover, and so
> on). Related to these fields there are also statistical functionality
> as PCA (Parallel Components Analysis), necessary for example for
> neural networks, but with an interest also as standalone functions.
>
> My question is: are these topics beyond the scope of the library at
> the actual level of maturity? What is the policy of GSL regarding the
> extension of the library on new fields?
The policy is to first create a package that builds outside of GSL. You can
find the guidelines at http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/devel.html (under the
section "Packages").
Cheers,
jordi