Sounds good. I'd like to start working on this after our spring semester has
ended (two more weeks). -Jason

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/2/11 11:13 PM, Jason Baldridge wrote:
>
>> I think the redesign of opennlp.maxent into opennlp.ml should not be
>> pinned
>> down by the previous API. I say this mainly because the current design has
>> a
>> lot of obvious problems, including poor encapsulation and a proliferation
>> of
>> methods for different options that could be handled much more cleanly. So,
>> I
>> propose a fairly clean break with the past API. Thoughts?
>>
>
> Yes, I agree, but there should be a very strong focus on only break
> backward
> compatibility once. In this case I suggest that we use the re-naming also
> to align the version with the opennlp-tools and opennlp-uima project.
>
> Before we actually change anything I suggest that we work on a proposal
> on how the new API could look, what do you think?
>
> Jörn
>



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The University of Texas at Austin
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