Subject: Re: [boost] Formal Review: Boost.Polygon starts today August 24, 2009
From: Simonson, Lucanus J (lucanus.j.simonson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-27 16:15:12
Andreas Fabri wrote:
> Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
>> Andreas Fabri wrote:
>>> Hi Luke,
>>>
>>> thank you for your explanations for the 45 degree case. You have a
>>> nice solution. I guess for the general case I have to read the
>>> BoostCon paper first.
>>>
>>> andreas
>>
>> Thank you for saying so.
>>
>> As requested, I haved added a test case for which CGAL fails to
>> subversion
>>
>> https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/gtl/forcgal.cpp
>
> Hi Luke,
>
> Using CGAL with just floating point arithmetic is rather nonsense,
> especially when you test robustness.
>
> I guess I need a recent version of boost, plus sandbox/gtl,
> in order that it compiles?
>
> Best regards,
>
> andreas
I did try CGAL with other kernel types and found that the same exception was thrown. I probably should have mentioned that. I used boost 1.35 with CGAL 3.3.1 and sandbox gtl. I'm working on getting the dependency on gmp straightened out to try the other kernels again.
Luke