[Ns-developers] GSL for ns-3

[Mathieu Lacage]

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 18:12 +0000, Tom Henderson wrote:

> Any support for or against including GSL as a required ns-3
> prerequisite?

It really all depends on the amount of pain involved in making it
possible to still use ns-3 if gsl is not available and, in this case,
gracefully degrade the user-experience by disabling features. For gary's
patch, the pain looks small enough that it's worth making gsl support
optional. 

I don't know about other features but, I really think that it's
important to make the default build just work with as few dependencies
as possible: there is nothing more painful for a newcomer to figure out
he needs to install new packages just to get started so, I feel that
it's important to make the default "./waf" command run smoothly as much
as possible. We went through quite a bit of pain to make this possible
so far, so, it would seem like a serious step backward to give up on
this feature.

regards,
Mathieu