[PPL-devel] Parma Polyhedra Library 0.11

[Roberto Bagnara]

On 08/04/10 20:58, Jack Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 05:43:33PM +0200, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
>> The core development team is very pleased to announce the availability
>> of PPL 0.11, a new release of the Parma Polyhedra Library.
>>
>> This release has many new features, some of which developed in strict
>> coordination with the people behind GCC/Graphite.  The main novelties
>> are:
>>
>> - a class PIP_Problem that provides a Parametric Integer Programming
>>    problem solver;
>>
>> - "deterministic" timeout computation facilities;
>>
>> - support for termination analysis via the automatic synthesis of
>>    linear ranking functions;
>>
>> - support for approximating computations involving (bounded)
>>    machine integers.
>
> Roberto,
>     I noticed that this release bumps the actual soversion numbers so
> that we have libppl.9.dylib, libpwl.5.dylib and libppl_c.4.dylib rather
> than libppl.7.dylib, libpwl.4.dylib and libppl_c.2.dylib from the
> 0.10.x releases.

Hi Jack,

yes, the soversion numbers have been updated as needed
(this should not come as a surprise though).

> So I assume we now need legacy ppl packages for
> the older cloog library builds and will have to bump the soversion
> on any newer cloog that builds against ppl 0.11, right?

I am not familiar enough with cloog to answer that.
What I can do is to recommend the use of PPL 0.11 instead
of PPL 0.10.* for the reasons explained in the NEWS file.
Cheers,

    Roberto

-- 
Prof. Roberto Bagnara
Applied Formal Methods Laboratory
Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy
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