On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Bill Igoe <billi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thinking aloud. 'Math' is of course a broad subject and your goal of a > solid all encompassing package is admirable. > I am not sure that is the goal of the projects here actually. Commons is more about small re-usable components that emerge in a wide range of applications. I think our goal is not to rival SciPy, or be a full service scientific library like ImgLib2. > Managing a lot of jars or packages is a pain for the none java expert. In > thinking on the way python, R and other packages > solves the 'issue' is by automatically downloading dependencies. > Do you have much familiarity with Maven? Commons is built with maven and I use it in all my projects as well. If you ask me maven is a very slick package manager, easily to rival anything in Python or R, and one reason I enjoy continuing to work in Java. Eric
