Step & eigen version 3

Andreas Cord-Landwehr cordlandwehr at kde.org
Sun Dec 14 02:35:11 UTC 2014


On Saturday 13 December 2014 21:38:52 Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Saturday, December 13, 2014 09:34:08 PM Marko Käning wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > step seems to the only KDE app which still uses eigen in version 2.
> > 
> > Any plans to move to version 3, which is e.g. used by kstars?
> 
> ... and calligra sheets.  ..and ...
> 
> In short: yes.
> 
> Slightly longer answer: I have never used eigen and have no clue how
> different version 2 and 3 are and how difficult it will be.
> 
> Right now I'm in the middle of the port to KF5.  But I'm going to research
> the issue and then get to it as soon as possible.

Hi, actually AFAIK some distos already patch Step and compile it with 
deprecated Eigen3 API (which will vanish in the next release). I have a half-
done Eigen3-porting patch locally, which I can update/complete during the
x-mas break.

Cheers,
Andreas


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