[gecode-users] Exists some other documentation than Doxygen style?

Michal Tuláček michal at tulacek.eu
Thu Nov 27 13:53:27 CET 2008


Hi,

  thanks for answer. The correct formulation could be "at the time
there is no documentation in better format but it is planned for the
next major release of gecode", am I right?

Thanks.


2008/11/27 Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist <zayenz at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> This question has been asked before in the users-list [1].
>
> As for how to call and initialize a search-engine manually, all the
> code the example-classes use is in Example::run [2].
>
> Cheers,
> Mikael
>
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gecode.user/1982
> [2] http://www.gecode.org/gecode-doc-latest/example_8icc-source.html#l00188
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Michal Tuláček <michal at tulacek.eu> wrote:
>> Dears,
>>
>>  I am writing a bachelor thesis which is focused on comparing of
>> several constraint solvers. I compare the objective criterions - the
>> spent time and memory on solving of several benchmarks as well as
>> subjective criterions - the main focus is on easiness of learning of
>> usage.
>>
>> Now I am in state, that Gecode looks interesting, it seems it offers
>> lots of possibilites how to describe a constraint problem but there is
>> a bit lack of documentation. I found only a doxygen generated
>> documentation but this is by my opinion best for "user who knows what
>> and how but doesnt know the exact spelling of function names or their
>> parameters" but mostly unuseful for new users who would need some
>> introduction. There are also some example problems, but the fact that
>> it is implementation of Example<> template, and the actual calls to
>> solver (initialization, etc.) is hidden somewhere in the parent
>> classes makes it more difficult for a newbie.
>>
>> So my question is simple: Is there some tutorial to Gecode, even if
>> that would be for example only draft or something like that?
>>
>> Thanks for answer, Michal Tulacek
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist, http://www.ict.kth.se/~zayenz/
>


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