[Insight-developers] Linear solvers

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Alex

TAUCS looks interesting...

However, the License has some non-standard terms.
For example, it has a explicit clause about Matlab.

The wording of "use or copy" should probably be "use and copy"
or at least "use and/or copy".

Are you in touch with the developers of TAUCS ?

Could you query the authors about their motivation for
crafting yet another license instead of adoption any of
the standard existing open source licenses ?

Note that we always have the alternative option of,
instead of absorbing the package into Utilities,
we can simply setup a CMake configuration to make possible
to use ITK with TAUCS if you have it installed in your
system.

This is what we have done for FFTW and MINCS...


   Regards,


     Luis


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Alexandre GOUAILLARD wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> We have implemented several mesh parameterisation algorithms. Those
> algorithm requires solving quite big linear systems, and we have been
> playing wth different solvers out there: VNL, TAUCS, MUMPS, of which only
> VNL is included in ITK. Unfortunatly, that's also the slower.
> We have designed the code to be solver-templated. By defualt the solver
> traits will be the VNL,
> 
> 
> but we are wondering if it would be too much of an effort to include TAUCS
> in ITK? The performances are really better. It sems that the licence would
> allow it, and it seems to be cross plateform enough:
> http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/taucs/
> 
> Alex. 
> 
> 
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