2009/11/3 Luc Maisonobe <luc.maison...@free.fr>: > There are at least one other regular commiter and three other committers > that have been active on the list last year. Phil is clearly one of the > most involved maintainers and he has been here since the beginning. Okay, thanks for the info. I know how much Phil means and I haven't for a second doubted that.
> There are only two lists: the users list and the developers list (here). > Both lists are archived and searchable. > > I have no preference on this specific topic, sorry. One important thing > to me is also to keep backward compatibility (as strange as it might > seem after the bunch of changes I introduced last summer). I agree with this, at least to the degree where it is practically durable. > > Would the change imply that the random package would disappear ? In this > case I would be against it. Would that change imply that low level "raw" > generators would be in random and higher level generators in > distribution ? In this case, I don't know what is better. > > One thing I would like to add at some time in the future would be better > and more modern "raw" generators in the same spirit as the Mersenne > Twister (typically I would like to add the WELL family of generators). > > From a user point of view, it is also important to be able to select a > different raw generator underlying a high level one. This is used for > example in Monte-Carlo analyses when one wants to reproduce a subset of > an already generated sequence, or according to what has higher priority, > generation speed or generation accuracy with respect to the desired > repartition. > > Luc Cheers, Mikkel. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
