[Haskell-cafe] Data.Graph?

Edward Kmett ekmett at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 14:15:36 EDT 2010


There are a number of us over on #hnn on freenode hacking away on the
beginnings of a shiny new graph library based on some new tricks for
annotated structures. Feel free to swing by the channel.

-Edward Kmett

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Ivan Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Sorry for the duplicate email Lee, but I somehow forgot to CC the
> mailing list :s
>
> On 31 March 2010 13:12, Lee Pike <leepike at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd like it if there were a "Data.Graph" in the base libraries with basic
> > graph-theoretic operations.  Is this something that's been discussed?
>
> I'm kinda working on a replacement to Data.Graph that will provide
> graph-theoretic operations to a variety of graph types.
>
> > For now, it appears that Graphalyze on Hackage is the most complete
> library
> > for graph analysis; is that right?  (I actually usually just want a
> pretty
> > small subset of its functionality.)
>
> Yay, someone likes my code! :p
>
> I've been thinking about splitting off the algorithms section of
> Graphalyze for a while; maybe I should do so now... (though I was
> going to merge it into the above mentioned so-far-mainly-vapourware
> library...).
>
> There are a few other alternatives:
>
> * FGL has a variety of graph operations (but I ended up
> re-implementing a lot of the ones I wanted in Graphalyze because FGL
> returns lists of nodes and I wanted the resulting graphs for things
> like connected components, etc.).
> * The dom-lt library
> * GraphSCC
> * hgal (which is a really atrocious port of nauty that is extremely
> inefficient; I've started work on a replacement)
> * astar (which is "generic" for all graph types since you provide
> functions on the graph as arguments)
>
> With the exception of FGL, all of these are basically libraries that
> implement one particular algorithm/operation.
>
> --
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
> IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
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