Re: [boost] [GSoC 2014] Boost.Fixed-Point Proposal

Wow... there's an incredible wealth of information in the Boost archives on fixed-point. A lot of these concern with a lot of design issues. These discussions should come in really handy. I wish I had come upon these earlier. But never too late I guess. Since my current proposal as it stands seems quite good to you (apart from any particular quibbles you might have which I'm most interested in hearing :) ) and the fact that I don't have much time left to make amendments to the proposal based on reading of these archives, I'll add a time before the community bonding period to the schedule solely to reading of these archives and ponder upon the various design issues discussed. This period lies before selection of the project in GSoC and it doesn't bother me since fixed-point has me very very interested now after all the time spent on it. So, GSoC or not, I would like to implement this library anyways provided of course that no one has any objection to it and no one else is working on it. Having said that though, I would like to hope that my above interest in developing the library regardless of GSoC doesn't hurt my chances of selection in it. Anyways, I found 4 very detailed discussions on fixed-point already. If anyone has any more relevant thread links, I'll be really glad to read them. http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2012/04/191987.php http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/157744 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/158019 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/178257 Thanks. Nikhar On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Nikhar Agrawal < nikharagrawal2006@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Michael Marcin wrote:

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The proposal seems pretty good. There was a discussion of a fixed-point proposal for last year's GSOC that might be relevant.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/239971

Hi, Thanks a ton for the thread. I'll go through it and try to make appropriate changes. Though I'm not sure how much time I would have to make any amends to the proposal. Which is of course my fault given that I submitted the proposal a little late for feedback. It's just that I preferred to be more confident about the project before writing the proposal. So I probably spent a lot of time in researching.

Is there anything in particular that you'd like me to add to the proposal?

Thanks a lot for taking the time to go through it :). Nikhar