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Bug#248219: ITP: libkdtree++-dev -- C++ template container implementation of kd-tree sorting.



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : libkdtree++-dev
  Version         : 0.1.0
  Upstream Author : Martin F. Krafft <madduck@debian.org>
* URL             : none
* License         : DFSG-free, but yet undecided.
  Description     : C++ template container implementation of kd-tree sorting.

After having received no replies to [0] I herewith propose to go
ahead with the packaging.

0. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg00394.html

Quoting the referenced message:

  I have written a C++ template library for KD-Trees, trying to stay
  as close as possible to STL containers. The library is not (yet)
  complete and it's not thoroughly tested. However, given the effort
  and grief I went through in writing it, I would like to make it
  available to folks, get people to test it, and hopefully have some
  peeps submit improvements.

  It

    - sports an unlimited number of dimensions (in theory)
    - can store any data structure, provided the data structure provides
      operator[0 - k-1] to access the individual dimensional
      components (arrays, std::vector already do) and a std::less
      implementation for the type of dimensional components
    - has support for custom allocators
    - implements iterators
    - provides standard find as well as range queries
    - has amortised O(lg n) time (O(n lg n) worst case) on most
      operations (insert/erase/find optimised) and worst-case O(n) space.
    - provides a means to rebalance and thus optimise the tree.
    - exists in its own namespace
    - uses STL coding style, basing a lot of the code on stl_tree.h

  So the question is: should I/can I package it for Debian?

  It's not yet documented, although the usage should be fairly
  straight forward. I am hoping to find someone else to document it as
  I suck at documentation and as the author, it's exceptionally
  difficult to stay didactically correct.

  It's just 6 .hpp files, so it would be a -dev package without
  a .so or .a file. Other than installing the 6 .hpp files into
  /usr/include/kdtree++, providing pkg-config files and a -config

Due to time constraints and lack of infrastructure, original source
code is available upon request for now. The Debian package is being
worked on.

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