Re: [Lib2geom-devel] lib2geom basics: define pathvector, define ellipse, define intersection

[mathog <ma...@ca...>]

Thanks for the reply.  The option of having to use livarot, which 
"nobody understands" is not
terribly appealing, and 2geom has its own issues, notably a broken 
boolean shape method.  Is
there some reason the inkscape project is creating 2geom instead of 
using CGAL?  CGAL seems to do
the same things and is in a more advanced state of development.  For 
instance, here is the documentation
for boolean operations:

http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/cgal_manual/Boolean_set_operations_2/Chapter_main.html

CGAL can be used under a GPL license, so that isn't an issue.

http://www.cgal.org/license.html

Both 2geom and CGAL need boost, so there's no real difference in the 
dependencies.

At this point I have not really used either, but from a cursory 
comparison of 2geom and CGAL it looks like
the latter might be a better choice.

Regards,

David Mathog
ma...@ca...
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech