giacomet@venus.ecn.purdue.edu (Frederic B Giacometti) (09/06/90)
Hello, I seriously started programming in Eiffel not long ago and like it pretty much. The 2.2 ISE Eiffel release comes with a nice little library. Still, with each of us programming, the amount of Eiffel software around must be steadily growing and I would not mind reusing some of it. We all have written some elementary classes not present in ISE's library which have little intellectual added value, but are nevertheless necessary bricks in our constructions. I am quoting for example what I'm doing these days, which I wish I weren't because it's of no interrest to me and contains no originality: the establishement of the classes for complete 3D vector and affine geometry and algebra of their transformations. I can imagine that some already wrote parts of it, and that others would need the same ones, one day. I need these classes only as a tool for some more important work. So my question is: what are the classes available other than these in ISE's catalog ? I don't know what the present state of the Eiffel consortium is, but would it be possible to set up a server (maybe maintained by ISE) from which public domain Eiffel classes could be obtained, or at least a list of persons ready to exchange their classes for some service, along with these classes. Besides, it could create contacts for these who do not attend user's meetings, and could help to share our classes to some extent. Frederic Giacometti School of Industrial Engineering Purdue University