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Date:Mon Jun 3 19:10:23 2001 
Subject:Re: GSL collaboration 
From:cglur 
Volume-ID:1010603.01 

cglur@onwe.co.za wrote:
> >Presumably 'senior member(s)' have judged that the cost/benefit says
> >do-it.

Jonathan.Cunningham@tesco.net wrote:
> Do what?
A pre-feasibility study; which has already started.

Aaron Sloman wrote:
> What I was proposing can be compared with two things that already exist
> in Pop-11:
> 
> (a) The X window system provides a large collection of utilities for
> managing graphical displays along with mouse and keyboard events,
> written in C. The poplog developers wrote lots of C code, and Pop-11
> code to invoke the C code, along with a lot of documentation....
> ... snip ...
> 
> (b) David Young at Sussex University produced a library with a
> collection of utilities and documentation for using or learning about AI
> vision techniques.
> 
> His popvision library, browsable here
>     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/popvision/
> or retrievable here:
>     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/popvision.tar.gz
> 
> includes a number of image manipulation programs written in C.
> 
> To make them accessible for users he has Pop-11 wrappers. The
> popvision/lib/ subdirectory has a bunch of files some defining C
> programs and some defining Pop-11 procedures to invoke the C programs.
> .... snip ...
> 
> --------------
> This file documents the GNU Scientific Library, a collection of
>    numerical routines for scientific computing.
> 
>    As of 21 May 2001 the library is in developers release only and is not
>    recommended for general use.
>      * Preliminaries
>      * Using the library
>           + ANSI C Compliance
>           + Compiling and Linking
>           + Shared Libraries
>           + Automake macros
>           + Inline functions
>           + Long double
>           + Portability functions
 .... snip rest of MASSIVE structured index ...

It seems to be an exercise in interfacing poplog to Unix Code (libraries) ?
How much can be 'taken over' from the 2 projects mentioned above ?
Am I being simplistic in hoping that a unified method can/should exist to
interface poplog to ANY Unix Code ?

Just testing the GSL facilities would be a massive task.
Perhaps 'automation' to do such testing already exists ?

-- Chris Glur.