This was discussed pretty extensively in the github issue: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/11324
On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 8:32:13 PM UTC-6, Christian Peel wrote: > > Nice! > > I saw somewhere recently that the plan was to move more out of base and > into packages. I'm curious as to why this needs to go into Julia base. > > cheers > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Dahua Lin <lind...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I searched over the forum and it seems that I did not announce this >> package when it is initially created. >> >> So here it is: >> >> https://github.com/JuliaSparse/SparseVectors.jl >> >> Simply put, it provides sparse vectors (not sparse matrices with >> one-column) and a series of methods operating thereon. Recently, I did a >> major upgrade of the package and many more functions are added. The package >> has been systematically tested and it is ready for general use. >> >> A majority of the functionalities will be migrated to Julia base, after >> Julia v0.4 is released. If your applications involve processing sparse >> vectors (e.g. text analysis), you may check it out and play with it. >> >> Cheers, >> Dahua >> >> > > > > -- > chris...@ieee.org <javascript:> >
