GSL

[Jens Lenge]

Hi Redhat team,

I heard about the GSL project and have some questions about it.
I hope you can help me.

GSL is often said to become a complete rewrite of LAPACK in native C, thus
offering LAPACK functionality without depending on F2C or any underlying
FORTRAN libs (like CLAPACK does).

==> Is it the goal of GSL to build a "native C" equivalent of LAPACK
functionality?
==> Will it depend on (or include) an underlying BLAS library?
==> If so, is that BLAS also native C?
==> Who is actually doing GSL? Is Redhat involved?
==> When used as a basis for a C++ wrapper lib, will the GSL data structures
be compatible with STL containers or the C++ complex<double> class?

Regards, Jens

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Dipl.-Ing. Jens Lenge
Universitaet Dortmund, ET-HFT
lenge@hft.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de