Posted by
Ferdinando M. Ametrano-3 on
Feb 16, 2004; 1:30am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Warming-up-for-0-3-5-tp10479p10480.html
At 10:27 AM 2/13/2004, Luigi Ballabio wrote:
> it'd be nice to roll out release 0.3.5 sometime during March
It's ok with me. I would go for a freeze in late February or early March,
with target release date late March.
>What is the status?
Few tests fail with Borland because of some 0/0 in the code.
The same (?) tests fail with Visual C++ if _controlfp(_EM_INEXACT, _MCW_EM
) is enforced (see
http://www.wilmott.com/messageview.cfm?catid=10&threadid=9481)
I think we should solve this issue.
There are 3 open bugs:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12740&atid=112740The last one it's easy to fix, the first two are open since April and
September 2002 :(
There are also 2 feature requests
(
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12740&atid=362740): the first one
will stay open for a long time, what about the second one?
> Is anybody working (or about to work) on something
>he'd like to finish before the 0.3.5 branch is created?
Yes, I would like to finish few things about interpolation I was working
on. Of course should it take longer than the end of February it will ship
in 0.3.6
For 0.3.5 I would prefer not to ship binaries. My idea is that QuantLib is
for quantitative developers that must be able to recompile the library, and
should be able to compile and run the test suite. What do you think about it?
I will try to upgrade the Win32 installer to NSIS 2
If I got it right boost is going to be optional for 0.3.5. I for one vote
to have it as requirement for 0.3.6: if everybody agree we should make
clear that 0.3.5 is transitional toward boost. BTW Luigi: any chance about
using the boost test suite instead of cppunit? Have you ever compared the
two approaches?
Last but not least the multi-dimensional Monte Carlo simulation framework
should probably be labelled as beta for the time being, at least until it
is proven to work with Brownian Bridge + low discrepancy sequences
ciao -- Nando