On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:56:23 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > >> On 04/12/2017 02:56 PM, Gilles wrote: >> >> Yes; and it is good per se, of course. Unforunately, it didn't change >>> the Commons Math issue: it's still unmaintained, and from what I observe >>> on JIRA, it's not going to improve with time (I said that much one year >>> ago and I was right, in hindsight). >>> >> >> Ok, then let's move commons-math to dormant and redirect the users to >> Hipparchus. >> > > Emmanuel, > > Do you actually prefer advertizing a non-Apache project rather than > having the PMC support its own developers in any which way it could? > > I sure hope that I'm not the only one here who would not like it. Hipparchus is also not a commons-type project. They appear to have copied the boilerplate about small, lightweight, reusable components, but I'm not sure why -- that's just not what that library is at all. I suspect coders will not drop by Apache commons looking for stiff ODE solvers -- they will be looking for more basic and convenient functionality such as that provided by Numbers. We should redirect the users to commons-numbers because that is what they probably want. But we could also mention that for a large and sophisticated mathematical library, they can check out Hipparchus.
