Hi Benedikt.
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:48:45 +0200, Benedikt Ritter wrote:
Hello Gilles,
Am 15.08.2017 um 16:26 schrieb Gilles
<gil...@harfang.homelinux.org>:
Hello.
[Time for a new episode in our "Ripping CM" series.]
How about creating "Commons Geometry"?
The rationale is comprised of the usual suspects:
* Smaller and more focused component, hence:
- Consistent development and maintenance.
- Consistent release schedule, not encumbered by
changes (and endless discussions) in _totally_
unrelated code.
- Potential for attracting contributors not
interested in maintaining the (growing) backlog
of CM.
* Self-contained: 96.3% of the "o.a.c.math4.geometry"
package have no dependency except:
- 4 classes now in "Commons Numbers".
- 2 methods and 1 constant in "MathUtils".
- CM exceptions. [Creating alternatives for those
will probably be the most time-consuming part of
the porting work.]
Moreover, none of the code in the "o.a.c.math4.geometry"
package is used by another package of CM.
A new component would give the "geometry" codes a much
better chance of being (confidently[1]) released, since
CM is "stuck" for the foreseeable future.[2]
WDYT?
I want to see the initial release of Commons Numbers before breaking
more components out of CM.
+1
I'm among those who most want to see that release rather sooner
than later. [IIRC, I posted regularly to inquire about the status
of the pending issues. Is there more *I* can do at this point?]
I've no problem with serializing the "CM ripping[1]" project.
However, I wish to know what people think of the purely technical,
code-oriented, arguments which I've put forward above.
My suggestion would be to have a "beta" release of the new component
in order to let a community of expert/interested users voice its
opinion on the expected API. [I think there is a lot of good and
broadly useful code in the "geometry" package (otherwise I wouldn't
ask for a new component) but I also suspect that the API can be
improved.]
Regards,
Gilles
[1] For its own good, and ours. ;-)
Regards,
Benedikt
Gilles
[1] There seems to be only one issue reported in JIRA
that pertains to "geometry".
[2] 54 issues yet to be fixed before the 4.0 release;
which, at the current rate, would lead to after 2025
(a very rough guess, I admit).
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