lib for working with graphs

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 29 15:10:16 UTC 2012


on 28/11/2012 17:02 Jonathan Anderson said the following:
> On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 at 14:37, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> Graphs as in vertices, edges, etc :) And things like graph basics: BFS, DFS,
>> connected components, topological sort, etc
>> 
> 
> I've used igraph in my research: http://igraph.sourceforge.net/. It's very
> full-featured, with attention to efficiency and sensible choices for (at least
> some) algorithms, but it is GPL'ed rather than BSD-licenced.

Yeah, a bummer for me.

>> And, big oops sorry, forgot one very important detail - it has to be C.
> 
> 
> 
> Does it have to *be* C, or does it have to be *interoperable with* C? For
> instance, igraph has a core C library to do the heavy lifting, but I'd never
> want to use it directly when exploring data sets because the Python wrapper API
> is so very convenient (and I can pop the resulting data into matplotlib).

It has to be C because I need to use it from C code in a "C runtime".

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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