Re: GSoC 2016 Project not merged into Octave yet

[PhilipNienhuis]

Dear Amr.


AMR_KELEG wrote
> Dear Octave Maintainers,
> 
> My name is Amr. I participated in GSoC 2016 with GNU Octave. My project
> was "Implement boolean operations on polygons".
> Unfortunately, The code wasn't merged into the Geometry Package.
> I am motivated to collaborate with the package's maintainer so that we can
> refactor the code and merge it into the package.
> 
> The Project's repo: https://bitbucket.org/amr_keleg/octave-geometry
> My profile on Octave's wiki: http://wiki.octave.org/User:AMR_KELEG

First of all I think you did a good job, again thank you very much for that.

There was quite a bit of discussion afterwards, large parts of which are in
patch #9000 (https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?9000), see e.g., comment #20),
and in the maintainers ML
(http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/GSoC-2017-Implement-boolean-operations-on-polygons-td4682161.html,
see posts starting from March 17, 2017).
Boost 1.60 on which your code was based didn't have features we needed but
Boost-1.6.1 couldn't be used with your code; IIRC in the mailing list
discussions John Swensen explained that later Boost versions showed to be
less stable than hoped for.

That said, your code did work and I used it for some time.

As to several m-file functions, right at the moment I'm busy merging some of
them with results of a later student project and with stuff I wrote myself,
some much earlier.

For the rest I 'll leave it to the geometry package maintainer to comment.

Philip




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