On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:12:24 +0200, Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The long and short of this is that there is no good unencumbered open > > source library available at the current time. Myself and several others, > > in conversation here at ApacheCon, have expressed interest in creating such > > a library. We have fairly mature code that we are willing to contribute > > along with code that embodies new thinking in the bloom filter arena (like > > proto-bloom filters). We just need a space within the Apache family to > > host it. The code base seems to small to be a separate project and so we > > come to Apache Commons seeking a home. > > IMO, a pretty compelling rationale for hosting it at "Commons". > If people think that [Collections] would be the best home, I'd suggest > making that component modular; hence unnecessary dependencies > would be a non-issue.
Thanks Claude for that brilliant explanation about bloom filter! (please blog it!) At the moment Commons Collections have no runtime dependencies, and only 3 test-dependencies. <https://github.com/apache/commons-collections/blob/master/pom.xml#L443> So unless the Bloom filter code comes with any new depdendencies seen to "bloat" rest of Commons, it could fit well in there. It would be a new package "bloom" as it's something to use for building collections rather than directly being a collection - but Collections already have similar packages for balanced trees, etc. Looking at the code which I suspect is <https://github.com/Claudenw/BloomFilter/tree/master/src/main/java/org/xenei/bloomfilter> it looks pretty clean, independent and straight forward to read and understand. >From Claude's email I see it is it's *use* that needs explanation! The only dependencies in that code seem to be within the org.xenei.bloomfilter.collections package which currently include use of Jena's extended iterator classes. This could probably be refactored, if this package is also to be included? (those classes would also fit naturally into Collections) -- Stian Soiland-Reyes The University of Manchester 🐝 https://www.esciencelab.org.uk/ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
