CGAL users discussion list

[Andres Corrada-Emmanuel <>]

Hello,

Thank you for developing the cgal package. We are considering using it 
as part of our Terrest photogrammetric system that we plan to release 
with a GPL license.

I have a couple of questions regarding the design of the package. I have 
succesfully compiled it in a Cygwin environment by hacking the 
install_cgal script to use .dll instead of .so. Which leads me to my 
questions:

Why didn't you use the gnu configure package to manage the whole 
configuration, compilation, testing, installation cycle? Are you opposed 
to developing it with such a framework?

I ask because being a small research team we have to be careful in 
reducing maintenance time on our software and we prefer packages that 
can handle the Cygwin environment easily (I wont't go into the 
historical reasons why we are stuck developing in this environment).

Thank you again for developing this software.

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Andres Corrada-Emmanuel
Research Fellow
Aerial Imaging and Remote Sensing Lab
Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Blog: www.corrada.com/blog