This has been a pkglint warning for several years now, and pkglint can even
fix it automatically. And it did for this commit.
Only in lang/mercury, two passes of autofixing were necessary because there
were nested variables.
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
The Matrix Template Library is a C++ class library for basic linear
algebra. The MTL is designed for high-performance while at the same
time taking advantage of the generic programming paradigm (ala the
STL) to allow much greater flexibility and breadth of
functionality. Many new and advanced programming techniques were used
in the construction of this library.
The MTL is a low level library in the sense that the user must be
conscious of the matrix type being used, and that all computationally
expensive operations are explicit. The MTL is not a C++
Matlab. Nevertheless, the interface is designed to be simple and easy
to use.
The matrix types provided include compressed sparse row/column,
banded, packed, diagonal (and tridiagonal), envelope, array of
pointers, and of course dense matrices. All matrix types share a
common and easy to use interface.
The algorithms consist of the traditional basic linear algebra
routines (from the BLAS level-1 to 3) which includes matrix and vector
arithmetic as well as operations such as backward substitution and
norm calculations.