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As of February 1998, Blitz++ is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Blitz++ development has been opened up (until now, it has been a one-person development effort). Contributions are welcomed.



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Suggestions

If your problem domain requires features which Blitz++ doesn't provide, or Blitz++ is forcing you to write awkward code, please let us know. Even if you see what you need on our to-do list, write anyway. Feedback from users and potential users is the only way we can get a sense of what our priorities should be.



Testing and porting

If you have access to a compiler which might be able to compile Blitz++, please give it a try. More instructions are available on the platforms page.

Also if you are able to compile and run the Blitz++ benchmarks on a new platform, please get in touch.

If you have a small kernel which is characteristic of your problem domain, please consider donating it to the Blitz++ benchmark suite. Code in F77/F90/C/C++ is all acceptable.



Join the Blitz++ development team

The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond's analysis of why and how open source projects can succeed.

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Posters and T-shirts

If you're a serious fan, you can use this Postscript file to print a Blitz++ poster for your office door. Also looks great on a T-shirt. Be the envy of other geeks. Irritate the Fortran crowd.

The logo shows a snapshot from an acoustic wave simulation implemented using Blitz++. The letters "Blitz++" are a denser medium; if you look carefully you can see wavefronts emerging between the bottoms of the letters.



Please call before you dig.

Please consider posting a short note to the development list before you do major work on the sources. This will give other people a chance to comment on your proposed changes, and decrease the risk that your changes will be somehow incompatible with Blitz++.


tveldhui@acm.org
Mon Nov 27 13:37:56 EST 2000
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