Mailing-List: contact dev-help@commons.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <dev@commons.apache.org>
Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of niall.pemberton@gmail.com
 designates 209.85.146.182 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
        h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
        b=dBeABhvyCoU2oli17/zerS6D4ofZXgxWE1w08ShUnlCoXpaNx7xnfcUCNWIf/CZYw+Vi24VghjAqKtMaOgWW6yx0ozlobm0GFiUSgrUc6GCyqoawle6PnYED490S4glSZQlqgg49u9QE/ozKYYxPv4m8vaaZPtRu0OLMJXMXIgg=
Message-ID: <55afdc850804131857p53bd8f3t321e6381d3e7521e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:57:04 +0100
From: "Niall Pemberton" <niall.pemberton@gmail.com>
To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <dev@commons.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [all][nabla] proposition for a new project in sandbox
In-Reply-To: <8a81b4af0804131837l30a73028n396456aeaa10f48d@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <48025D90.40407@free.fr>
	 <B8238FF9-1F13-4643-96ED-B4097CA37E8F@apache.org>
	 <f2e8eedf0804131811s3ab93961k6ba9fb60795c90ce@mail.gmail.com>
	 <8a81b4af0804131837l30a73028n396456aeaa10f48d@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Phil Steitz <phil.steitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 6:11 PM, James Carman
>  <james@carmanconsulting.com> wrote:
>  > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Torsten Curdt <tcurdt@apache.org> wrote:
>  >
>  > >  Well, I am wondering if this really is a "common" need that should go into
>  >  > the commons project. We already have "math".
>  >  >  If it doesn't fit in there it might well be better of to get it into labs
>  >  > IMO - not commons.
>  >  >
>  >
>  >  I agree with Torsten on this one.  Why doesn't this belong as a part
>  >  of math (or maybe a submodule if math wants to have one)?
>  >
>
>  Um...maybe for the same kind of reason that [functor] does not belong
>  inside [collections] ;)
>
>  We don't want to add it to [math] (at least immediately), because it
>  does not really fit with the current focus of [math] and [math] is
>  getting large, and will get larger in 2.0.  Nabla also should not
>  depend on [math] either and could be used by itself.
>
>  As I said, i think it is worth a try and in any case, we should be
>  able to start it in the sandbox.

I agree. I think the sandbox is there to experiment and we should be
pretty liberal for existing committers. I don't know whether this is
suitable for commons or not, but I think that question can be left
until the point when/if it wants to be promoted.

Niall

>  Phil

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@commons.apache.org