Just read the Maven description.... bingo!!! On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:02 AM, Eric Barnhill <ericbarnh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 3:29 PM, Bill Igoe <billi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Thinking aloud. 'Math' is of course a broad subject and your goal of a > > solid all encompassing package is admirable. > > > > I am not sure that is the goal of the projects here actually. Commons is > more about small re-usable components that emerge in a wide range of > applications. I think our goal is not to rival SciPy, or be a full service > scientific library like ImgLib2. > > > > Managing a lot of jars or packages is a pain for the none java expert. In > > thinking on the way python, R and other packages > > solves the 'issue' is by automatically downloading dependencies. > > > > Do you have much familiarity with Maven? Commons is built with maven and I > use it in all my projects as well. If you ask me maven is a very slick > package manager, easily to rival anything in Python or R, and one reason I > enjoy continuing to work in Java. > > Eric >
