Any change to improve and simplify the user experience for the `math/lapack2` addon is welcome from my POV!
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 3:22 AM chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > On point 1, it is not necessary that addon code be compatible with > earlier versions. > > You can use RELEASE in the manifest to specify which releases are > supported. Use j904 or j9.4 to support only the current release, e.g. > > RELEASE=: 'j9.4' > > If so, the builds for earlier versions will remain unchanged. > > See also code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/Developers_Guide#Release > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 1:25 AM bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Your contributions are always welcome! > > > > On the point 2, & means no memu applied. The trailing \0 might be absent. > > Nevertheless, LAPACK are fortran routines so that C style strings are not > > expected. > > Therefore I _think_ that is OK. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 3:55 PM Igor Zhuravlov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Dear addon maintainers, > > > > > > 1. Addon code looks outdated a bit. Is it done intentional to provide > > > addon > > > compatibility with older JE versions? If not, I'd like to prepare pull > > > request > > > to update code. No hardcore with multitasking and modifier trains, > just a > > > few > > > nice J9.4 features, plus some refactoring and bug fixes. > > > > > > 2. LAPACK specs distinguish "in" (i.e. read-only) parameters type. > Those > > > are > > > eligible candidates to be marked with & instead of * in parameters > list of > > > addon interface verbs, to avoid copying. Are there any objections for > this > > > massive change? > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > Igor > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
