At Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:46:14 +0100,
Marco Maggi wrote:
> My opinion is that the GSL siman module itself does not follow
> the GSL coding guidelines: it should implement an interface
> like the one of the minimisation modules, with an iterate
> function that we have the responsibility of invoking again and
> again; with such an interface we could be free to inspect
> the current solution and decide what to do and what to log.

This is true. It was one of the first parts written, before the
iteration design was used.

> The Annealing interface should be changed to do exactly that.
> I want to do it, it is just a matter of finding 60 minutes
> of will
> in this stormy sea that life is.
> 
> For backwards compatibility reasons it is correct not to change
> the GSL code while version 1.x is still going.

Adding a new interface is not a problem, I would keep the old one for
compatibility.

-- 
Brian Gough


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