Re: core? util?

2010-02-09 Thread Ted Dunning
We (I) have had some problems with dependencies in the past. Some code seemed very util, but some other things that seemed pretty core depended on them. I think that the real issue for me is that we have two meanings of utils. One is generally useful stuff in core and the other is things that

Re: core? util?

2010-02-09 Thread Jake Mannix
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: I think that the real issue for me is that we have two meanings of utils. One is generally useful stuff in core and the other is things that use mahout to do cool things. This is my problem too: *examples* is things

Re: core? util?

2010-02-09 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Feb 9, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Jake Mannix wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: I think that the real issue for me is that we have two meanings of utils. One is generally useful stuff in core and the other is things that use mahout to do cool

Re: core? util?

2010-02-09 Thread Drew Farris
Ahh, ok this makes sense. Also as others pointed out, within 'core' are some 'small' utilities used by core that are undeserving of their own module, e.g: HadoopUtil. These generally go under the org.apache.mahout.common package. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Grant Ingersoll