I thought it would be good to raise a structural question here rather than in the commons-complex JIRA.
The Complex library has multiple dependencies on three packages: -- commons-math base classes (e.g. Field et al.) -- commons-math exceptions -- commons-math util (numerous classes) Otherwise it is self-contained. (Some tests within the QuaternionTest class use a large chain of dependencies from the geometry package, so I think it is best to simply remove the geometry-dependent tests until someone arrives to maintain that library.) This suggests to me that, if we were to continue with some kind of math-utils base class, it should consist of these three current packages: the base classes, util and exception. It might in fact make sense to spin out this base library first (which I am happy to oversee) then return to finishing out the independent complex library with only commons-math-util as dependency. Would this also be compatible with the current trajectory of RNG? Eric
