Re: [Minion-general] Using Minion in other programs?

[Ian G. <ip...@cs...>]

Hi Tommy

0.5.0 is now out.

Ian

On 15 Jan 2008, at 14:55, Tommy Persson wrote:

> Ian Gent <ip...@cs...> writes:
>
>> Tommy
>>
>> Many thanks for your interest.
>>
>> Any day now (literally) we should have 0.5.0 out, which will be very
>> similar to the current svn.     One change is that the internal state
>> problem you mention is addressed, though you have to recompile with  
>> an
>> appropriate flag.
>
> OK, then I will wait or look at the svn version. If you can call the
> reader with a string also and not just the filename that would be very
> good...
>
>> Your application sounds interesting.  Can you say any more about it?
>> I would exercise extreme caution using Minion in a safety critical
>> system of course, given its current state.
>
> It is a research project (the research group is described here
> http://www.ida.liu.se/~patdo/auttek/introduction/index.html) focused
> on multi-agent systems and we need to have some CSP solvers available
> as kind of a tool box and I looked around to see what I could find
> that was implemented in C or C++ and I found some systems but some of
> them did not compile with a modern C++ compiler so I think that Minion
> was the only one that worked directly.
>
> It is a research project so if it works in experiemts and demo it is
> OK. When you say current state do you mean that the software is
> relatively new so there is probably a lot of bugs left? Or is there
> some other reason not to trust the result?
>
> -- 
> /Tommy Persson

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