[Os-project-managers] OS Constitution and CoinFinit.hpp

[Kipp Martin]

Hi Gus:

Stefan -- feel free to ignore the below. I am copying you since your 
email started this.

Stefan's email this evening has cleared up some cobwebs in the back of 
mind. The discussion about CoinFinite.hpp is very much related to 
something Jun and I discussed before you came on board. The idea, indeed 
part of the OS Constitution, was to keep a big chunk of OS independent 
from the rest of COIN-OR. In particular, we thought it was critical that 
people could use the OS API (OSCommonInterfaces) without needing any of 
the other COIN-OR projects. In fact, the OSCommon project with OSUtils, 
OSCommonInterfaces, and OSAgent is designed to do just that. This way 
people can process, read, write OSiL, OSoL, OSrL without other COIN-OR 
projects. I still think this is a very good idea. Putting CoinFinite.hpp 
in OSCommonInterfaces code blows this sky high.

So what do we do? Why not define our own OSIsnan fucntion and put the 
OSIsnan into OSUtils?  We define nan in OSParameters so such an inline 
function should be easy.

Cheers


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Kipp Martin
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