[ge-talk] Auckland Layout Manager (ALM) ported

[Christof Lutteroth]

Paul van Nugteren wrote:
> Cool, thanks, why the glue? Was the solver written in another language?
lp_solve is written in C, and the API is quite low-level. It was much 
easier to write a C++ API for it first, and then build ALM on top of 
that API.

>> Since I received so much encouraging feedback about ALM the last time I 
>> wrote to this list, I wanted to announce that ALM is now ported and part 
>> of the Haiku repository. You can find it in src/libs/alm and 
>> src/libs/linprog (the C++ glue for the lp_solve linear solver). Some 
>> examples are in src/tests/libs/alm

Cheers,
Christof