[needs-packaging] streflop needs packaging

[Kip Warner]

The streflop library needs packaging.

A computer has a finite memory, and cannot represent an infinity of numbers. If you add 0.1 + 0.1 in C++ you will probably not get the mathematical result 0.2. The problem is that what you get depends on many parameters. On one configuration, you may get something like 0.1995, and on another 0.1999. For the vast majority of programs, these small differences do not matter. But if you want to reproduce the same results twice, for a scientific experiment for example, on different machines or even on the same machine but with different options, then you have to be more careful. Much more careful, because these small differences can occasionally accumulate quite fast.

The STandalone REproducible FLOating-Point library which is the subject of this page allows you to control how the computations are done in C++. The goal is to make your programs give reliable and reproducible results.

Home: http://nicolas.brodu.numerimoire.net/en/programmation/streflop/
Source: http://nicolas.brodu.numerimoire.net/common/programmation/streflop/
License: LGPL

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Kip Warner (kip)]

My PPA containing work in progress:
https://launchpad.net/~kip/+archive/ubuntu/streflop/