Re: [math] break up MathUtils?

2011-10-04 Thread Mikkel Meyer Andersen
2011/10/3 Gilles Sadowski gil...@harfang.homelinux.org: On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:42:15PM +0200, Mikkel Meyer Andersen wrote: 2011/10/3 Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com: I agree with Gilles' recent comment that this class is bloated.  Any ideas on how to break it up?  Now would be a good

Re: [ognl] Testcases confusion

2011-10-04 Thread Christian Grobmeier
It's not clear whether the exception is expected, in which case the output should be suppressed, or an error, in which case the test should just be allowed to fail with the exception. I was looking into the test cases but they are, well, pretty different from what I am used so I thought I

[GUMP@vmgump]: Project commons-proxy-test (in module apache-commons) failed

2011-10-04 Thread Gump
To whom it may engage... This is an automated request, but not an unsolicited one. For more information please visit http://gump.apache.org/nagged.html, and/or contact the folk at gene...@gump.apache.org. Project commons-proxy-test has an issue affecting its community integration. This

Re: [lang] who's on deck for 3.0.2?

2011-10-04 Thread Gary Gregory
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Henri Yandell flame...@gmail.com wrote: First we need to resolve or reversion the open issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=truejqlQuery=project+%3D+LANG+AND+fixVersion+%3D+%223.0.2%22+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved *

Re: [lang] who's on deck for 3.0.2?

2011-10-04 Thread Honton, Charles
What about adding LANG-462? It's languished for nearly a year. The concerns stated in the issue activity are about it not being baked enough. It won't get baked unless people actually use it, which indicates it needs to be released so that it can be used. This is entirely new code, with no

Re: [math] Support for Abelian Groups and Rings?

2011-10-04 Thread Axel
2011/10/3 Sébastien Brisard sebastien.bris...@m4x.org: Hello, I'm using quite extensively the Field/FieldElement interfaces, but am sometimes feeling the need for less stringent sets like Abelian Groups (no multiplication) and Rings (no division). This would allow me to carry out some

Re: [math] Support for Abelian Groups and Rings?

2011-10-04 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Thanks for the link! It seems very interesting, I'll give it a try! Sébastien 2011/10/4 Axel axel...@gmail.com: 2011/10/3 Sébastien Brisard sebastien.bris...@m4x.org: Hello, I'm using quite extensively the Field/FieldElement interfaces, but am sometimes feeling the need for less stringent

Re: [math] Add methods opposite() and inverse() to o.a.c.m.FieldElement

2011-10-04 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Le 04/10/2011 05:22, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : Good morning everyone, I would like to add the above mentioned methods to FieldElement. This would avoid awkward commands such as x.getField().getZero().substract(x) (for x.opposite()) and x.getField().getOne().divide(x) (for x.invert()). It's not

Re: [math] break up MathUtils?

2011-10-04 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Le 04/10/2011 08:43, Mikkel Meyer Andersen a écrit : 2011/10/3 Gilles Sadowskigil...@harfang.homelinux.org: On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:42:15PM +0200, Mikkel Meyer Andersen wrote: 2011/10/3 Phil Steitzphil.ste...@gmail.com: I agree with Gilles' recent comment that this class is bloated. Any

[sanselan] Question about submitting patches

2011-10-04 Thread Gary Lucas
I have just submitted two patches to the Sanselan code tree. These address issues a byte-order bug (Sanselan issue #54) and a speed enhancement (Sanselan issue #56).I uploaded the patches as attachments to their associated issues. Since I am new to using Subversion and the JIRA issue

Re: [math] Support for Abelian Groups and Rings?

2011-10-04 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Le 03/10/2011 19:50, Mikkel Meyer Andersen a écrit : 2011/10/3 Sébastien Brisardsebastien.bris...@m4x.org: I would be curious to see how such a class would actually help you. I have to admit that a big part of my curiosity is due to the fact that I don't understand how it really would help.

Re: [math] Add methods opposite() and inverse() to o.a.c.m.FieldElement

2011-10-04 Thread Mikkel Meyer Andersen
2011/10/4 Luc Maisonobe luc.maison...@free.fr: Le 04/10/2011 05:22, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : Good morning everyone, I would like to add the above mentioned methods to FieldElement. This would avoid awkward commands such as x.getField().getZero().substract(x) (for x.opposite()) and

[ALL] symbolic links for current releases

2011-10-04 Thread sebb
Symbolic links should not be used in mirrored directories [1]. We still use them in some components; I propose to delete them all later this week. The disadvantages are: - often don't get updated promptly; an extra task for the RM that is often forgotten - hide the true version when the archive

Re: [VOTE][io] Release Commons IO 2.1-RC6

2011-10-04 Thread Oliver Heger
Both ant and maven builds work fine with Java 1.5 under Windows 7. Artifacts look good. The link to the site provided below is obviously not correct, but I built it locally and it is fine. So +1 Oliver Am 03.10.2011 23:35, schrieb Gary Gregory: Good day to you all: I have prepared Commons

Re: [VOTE][io] Release Commons IO 2.1-RC6

2011-10-04 Thread Simone Tripodi
+1 thanks for the hard work Gary! Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Oliver Heger oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de wrote: Both ant and maven builds work fine with Java 1.5 under Windows 7. Artifacts look good. The link to the

Re: [VOTE][io] Release Commons IO 2.1-RC6

2011-10-04 Thread Gary Gregory
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Simone Tripodi simonetrip...@apache.orgwrote: +1 thanks for the hard work Gary! YW :) Gary Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Oliver Heger oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de wrote: Both

Re: [math] Add methods opposite() and inverse() to o.a.c.m.FieldElement

2011-10-04 Thread Phil Steitz
On 10/3/11 8:22 PM, Sébastien Brisard wrote: Good morning everyone, I would like to add the above mentioned methods to FieldElement. This would avoid awkward commands such as x.getField().getZero().substract(x) (for x.opposite()) and x.getField().getOne().divide(x) (for x.invert()). It's

[math] advertising MathXxExceptions

2011-10-04 Thread Phil Steitz
I have been leaving the standard exception advertisements alone as I s/MathRuntimeException.createXxException/new MathXxException, but I notice others are changing the @throws to declare the MathXxException. We should probably be consistent. I don't know if it really makes any difference. I see

Re: [VOTE][io] Release Commons IO 2.1-RC6

2011-10-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Gary Gregory wrote: Good day to you all: I have prepared Commons IO 2.1-RC6. The differences with RC5 are: - build.xml: Pick up Sebb's fix for the JUnit download mess. Tag: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/io/tags/commons-io-2.1-RC6 Site:

Re: [math] advertising MathXxExceptions

2011-10-04 Thread Gilles Sadowski
I have been leaving the standard exception advertisements alone as I s/MathRuntimeException.createXxException/new MathXxException, but I notice others are changing the @throws to declare the MathXxException. We should probably be consistent. I don't know if it really makes any

Re: [math] Support for Abelian Groups and Rings?

2011-10-04 Thread Greg Sterijevski
Pardon my ignorance of Abelian Fields, but what would be a use of this set of classes? Do they simplify some calculation or make some code faster? The question is, are they numerical? On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Luc Maisonobe luc.maison...@free.fr wrote: Le 03/10/2011 19:50, Mikkel Meyer

Re: [math] advertising MathXxExceptions

2011-10-04 Thread Phil Steitz
On 10/4/11 4:26 PM, Gilles Sadowski wrote: I have been leaving the standard exception advertisements alone as I s/MathRuntimeException.createXxException/new MathXxException, but I notice others are changing the @throws to declare the MathXxException. We should probably be consistent. I don't

Pivoting QR Decomposition: Take Two!

2011-10-04 Thread Greg Sterijevski
Hello all, A while back I was interested in being able to do pivoting qr decomposition. I noticed that Chris Nix submitted a patch, but he indicated that he had more work to do (testing and filling in functionality). In the discussion around this, Luc suggested that I look at the QR decomposition

Re: [math] Support for Abelian Groups and Rings?

2011-10-04 Thread Phil Steitz
On 10/4/11 5:42 PM, Greg Sterijevski wrote: Pardon my ignorance of Abelian Fields, but what would be a use of this set of classes? Do they simplify some calculation or make some code faster? The question is, are they numerical? We can all look at Sebastien's use cases to assess general

Re: [math] Support for Abelian Groups and Rings?

2011-10-04 Thread Phil Steitz
On 10/3/11 10:23 AM, Sébastien Brisard wrote: I would be curious to see how such a class would actually help you. I have to admit that a big part of my curiosity is due to the fact that I don't understand how it really would help. It could be, as you say, beautiful but useful is sometimes

Re: [math] Support for Abelian Groups and Rings?

2011-10-04 Thread Sébastien Brisard
Hello everyone, so we all agree that adding these structures to CM would be compartively easy (reusing what has been done with FieldElement/Field). Whether it would be useful is another issue... What is most interesting is the example use cases.  I think we all know that it is straightforward

Re: [math] Add methods opposite() and inverse() to o.a.c.m.FieldElement

2011-10-04 Thread Sébastien Brisard
+1 to add both of these, though I would suggest one of the following pairs of names: 0) negate, invert 1) opposite, reciprocal 2) additiveInverse, multiplicativeInverse Probably 2) is clearest, but a bit long.  I am fine with any of them. Phil I do think these two features might prove

[MATH] Re: Pivoting QR Decomposition: Take Two!

2011-10-04 Thread Greg Sterijevski
My apologies! Forgot to tag the subject line. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Greg Sterijevski gsterijev...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all, A while back I was interested in being able to do pivoting qr decomposition. I noticed that Chris Nix submitted a patch, but he indicated that he had more