Announcement: Gecode 1.0.0 released

[Russ Abbott]

Hi Christian,

It sounds terrific.  I wish I had time to work on this.  If I did I'd want
to look into building an interface between Gecode and the OpenOffice
spreadsheet.

It seems to me that one thing that's kept constraint programming from the
masses is that one has to be a programmer to use it.  If it were somehow
available though a familiar interface like a spreadsheet (even in a limited
form), I think it would become much more widely known and used.  (It might
also help OpenOffice take marketshare from Excel.)

What do you think?  How hard would it be to do something like this in a way
that would provide a useful feature for spreadsheet users?


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On 1/18/06, Christian Schulte <schulte at imit.kth.se> wrote:
>
> [I think that this might be of some interest as Gecode inherits
> some ideas (computation spaces) from Oz. Christian.]
>
> We would like to announce the release of
>
>                Gecode 1.0.0
>           http://www.gecode.org/
>
> Gecode is an open, free, portable, accessible, and efficient
> environment for developing constraint-based systems and
> applications:
>
> open
>   Gecode is radically open for programming: it can be easily
>   interfaced to other systems. It supports the programming of
>   new propagators (as implementations of constraints), branching
>   strategies, and search engines. New variable domains can be
>   programmed with the same efficiency as the finite domain and
>   integer set variables that come predefined with Gecode.
>
> free
>   Gecode is distributed under a BSD-style license. All of its
>   parts including documentation, implementations of global
>   constraints, and examples are available as source code.
>
> portable
>   Gecode is implemented in C++ that carefully follows the C++
>   standard. It can be compiled with modern C++ compilers and
>   runs on a wide range of machines (including 64bit machines).
>
> accessible
>   Gecode comes with extensive reference documentation that allows
>   to focus on different programming tasks like modelling,
>   implementing propagators, and implementing variable domains.
>
> efficient
>   Gecode offers competitive performance with respect to both
>   runtime and memory usage.
>
> allows contributions
>   Gecode is designed to facilitate contributions on top of
>   it. CP(Graph) and CP(Map) providing graph and map variables for
>   constraint programming is available as a first contribution
>   built on top of Gecode.
>
>
> Gecode and contributions built on top of it are available from
>        http://www.gecode.org/
>
> --
> Christian Schulte, http://www.imit.kth.se/~schulte/
>
>
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