Quantlib 3.12, Object Handler 1.3 and, Quantlib Addin3.12
Posted by
Joe Byers-2 on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Java-wrapper-test-program-using-Eclipse-3-1-1-tp4555p4566.html
Quantlib developers,
I want to praise you for the new version of Quantlib 1.3 and many of the enhancements. A fine job done.
I want to give failing marks to the developers on the new versions of Object handler and the Quantlib Addin. They have taken a project that required good knowledge of compiling and deploying the 3 applications (remember OO had to have log4cxx 9.7 as well) to a project that requires expertise for compiling and deploying. The modifications of log4cxx 9.7 are a blasphemy. One log4cxx is 9.7 no longer under development by apache. A new version is scheduled. Your version of log4cxx does not have the dll project in the msvc project file and the compilation errors are horrendous to over come. The simplesocketserver I can not get to compile no matter what I do.
Quantlib addin is also poor. CPP get all kinds of C4530 error in the stock VC code, C3861 snprintf in log4cxx and c1083 alloca.h
not found in tchar.h
The installation and help are not 'helpful' at all. A step by step installation with details to the project properties in MSVC or Eclipse or gcc would be nice. That way if anyone has some minor differences on their system, they can map to your defaults.
Why are you using the logger? The software is complicated enough as it is. OO does not seem to provide any benefits but adding complexity. I understand the 'objectives' and goals of OO but not the reason for the complexity.
It boils down to if you want Quantlib to be used it has to be as easy to install the various components as it is to install Financial Eng. Asso. www.fea.com, techhackers, or the any other proprietairy quantitative software.
I am only tyring to provide constructive criticism here. I would like to add that I am not a C programer or systems analysts. Only a meager professor of Finance and consultant trying to make
life easier for myself, my students and colleagues with useful software.
Good luck
Thank you
Joe W. Byers
Professor of Finance
The University of Tulsa
Tulsa OK
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