Re: [Quantlib-dev] using special functions and statistical distributions from boost::math?

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 22:25 +0200, Kim Kuen Tang wrote:
> > I investigated the issue of using boost functions a while ago. If I recal it
> > correctly the conclusion was that using the boost distribution functions would
> > make QuantLib depend on some boost lib files, which wasn't regarded as
> > desirable.
> Dont understand this point. QuantLib already depends on boost.

He means that we would have to link to a Boost library.  Right now, we
just include header-only Boost modules, so there's no linking involved
and compilation is simpler.

Anyway, I'm in favour of using more Boost modules (not only math, but
for instance signals instead of the current observer/observable
classes).  However, we have backward compatibility to think of, so we
can't just remove the existing functions because people might be using
them.  Let's keep it in the list of things we'll do for QuantLib 2.0.

Luigi



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