BLS wrote:
Like so many hopeful enthusiasts you are trying to bring in something. I
regret that I have to tell you that Phobos is a one man show.
Actually, it is more like a six- or seven-man show, and the number of
developers is growing.
ATM we have a situation where the compiler tries to support ideas
written in book not yet available for a library which exist in outer space.
See concurrence (news group) ,container (D)
The concurrency stuff seems to be well under way. (An incomplete
version of) std.concurrency was included with 2.043.
I think we can say that Phobos is a ridiculous tiny library. but in case
that you have a look on what is happening outside .. a lot. This is
where your library will/can survive.
By posting messages like this, you're not exactly helping Phobos grow
and gain more developers.
Potential contributor: "Hey, I have some code which I think
would be useful for Phobos."
You: "Forget it, you'll never get it in. Besides, Phobos sucks
anyway, and there's no point in trying to improve it."
I mean, what are you trying to achieve with this?
-Lars
On 15/04/2010 20:49, Gareth Charnock wrote:
As a side effect of my PhD project I've got a collection of mathematical
classes. I'd be happy to collect them together, tidy them up and donate
them to phobos the authors are interested in including them. Matrices
and vectors in particular get reinvented all the time so I'm sure users
of D will appreciate them being there. Quaternions are probably somewhat
more specialised; they are most often used for representing rotations
(they have different advantages and disadvantages to rotation matrices).
I've also written a solver for cubic equations.
The matrix and vector classes are of the sort where the dimension is
known at compile time and will probably be most useful for modelling
geometry. High dimensional matrices and vectors are probably better left
to a scientific library (I remember there was talk that one might be
being proposed).
Would this sort of functionality be useful for phobos? At the moment, I
can't promise anything, I'm just trying to judge the interest should I
find time to look into it.
Gareth Charnock
