GSLL Development

GSLL Development

Goals

The goal of this project is to provide as complete an interface to the GSL as possible in as Lisp-natural a way as is reasonable. It is written only in Common Lisp (no C), with access to the foreign library through CFFI.

Non-goals

The following is not part of the plan for the GSLL interface:

Status

There is a Trac page for development information and for reporting bugs. There is a mailing list for all aspects of this project.

Most of the interface is complete, with a few chapters missing and some functionality missing. See the documentation for details, particularly known failures. It is possible that the library API will change but probably not substantially; most of the remaining work is to fix bugs.

Contributions

Contributions to the development of GSLL are welcome; the primary way to get started is by posting to the mailing list; also see the Trac page. A contribution may take the form of bug reports and fixes, suggestions for new interface design, porting the remaining unported functions, testing on a new platform or compiler. The supplied macros defmfun and defmpar define virtually all of the interface functions and variables respectively, which simplifies the process of porting. The arguments and defaults provide a convenient way of defining new functions and variables.

Regression tests

Regression tests using lisp-unit (provided) are given for many of the functions defined. These also serve as examples. Note that most of the result have not been verified with an independent source; the values given are from previous tests. To run the tests,

(lisp-unit:run-tests)
See documentation regarding known failures.


Liam Healy
Time-stamp: <2008-08-31 20:14:05EDT development.html>