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[David Doria <>]

Actually I was wrong. I have re-read the C++ norm, in the section
*8.5 Initializers [dcl.init]*, and even in the the initializers for aggregates
and arrays, the expressions in the { } do not need to be constant.

What compiler do you use? It is probably buggy, and not supported by the CGAL
project.

I'm using gcc 4.4. Why not use the non-initialization list method if there is any question/confusion and it seems to not work on some compilers?

CGAL examples and demos are shipped with CMake scripts, that precisely states
which libraries to link with, for each example or demo. If you do not use
CMake, at least you should have a look at those files. Sometimes, the list of
libraries to link with depends on the platform. We cannot duplicate the logic
of the CMakeLists.txt files in another place.

I see the list now in the CMakeLists.txt file, but it seems to not include metis, which was required. I don't think putting a comment in the classes is duplicating the logic - it is simply a more informative way to tell users "If you use this class, you must use this library". That is very different than picking a handful of examples and saying in the cmake file you must use X,Y and Z libraries for this example - then the user would still have to figure out which classes use which libraries before building their own projects.

 

TAUCS is a big library, and most of CGAL packages do not use it. What is more,
TAUCS is an external library, with different copyright and license than CGAL.
The CGAL project has the right to redistribute TAUCS, but if it was in the
same tarball as CGAL, the license scheme of the tarball would be more
complicated than now.

--
Laurent Rineau, PhD

Understandable. Maybe the website can at least be updated with this warning about the >3.3 versions not working with the current release of taucs in all the places the taucs links are given?

Thanks,

David