Re: [Quantlib-dev] [QuantLib-svn] SF.net SVN: quantlib: [14226] trunk/QuantLib

[Ferdinando A. <na...@am...>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Luigi Ballabio
<lui...@gm...> wrote:
>  Aren't we supposed to release a stable 1.0 this year? "Stable" as in
>  "client code should keep working with later releases without changes"?
Yes we are. Anyway I miss the relationship between the stability the
library should guarantee from 1.0 onward and the way we organize our
header files.

>  I would value more grouping related classes to make
>  their relationship clear, or making immediately clear to a user looking
>  at schedule.hpp that a MakeSchedule class is available.
I hoped that documentation would have been in charge of that, while
header file organization would have served the developer community. I
might be wrong, but this was your argument when I tried to use folder
structure to surrogate some lack of documentation

>  After all, the
>  recompilation problem affects only a handful of users---you, me, and a
>  few others that work on the repository; most users just build the
>  released library once.
After all, I must confess I'm concerned much more about my needs than
"most (other) users" needs. Don't get me misunderstood, I am committed
to free software and open source 100% as I've always been from the
start of the QuantLib project. it's just that I spend my coding hours
for my employer and my personal interests, not to serve generic end
users.
Trust me: those end users are longing for documentation, and don't
mind about header organization.

Last but not least, I would love if somebody else would join this
thread and contribute his opinion. Otherwise my proposal would be to
continue just between you and I in front of a beer ;-)

ciao -- Nando