On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 22:12, Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le mar. 10 août 2021 à 21:25, Matt Juntunen > <matt.a.juntu...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > FYI, I'm planning to start the geometry release process within the > > next couple of days instead of waiting for the RNG release as > > mentioned previously. (Geometry only uses RNG for unit tests and > > benchmarks.) The reasons for this change of plans is that (1) I have > > need of the code in other projects and (2) I have time now to do the > > release but will most likely not later on. Please let me know if you > > have any objections. > > No problem. > [There is also no worry then to release RNG v1.4 and we can think > about RNG-127.] > I am finishing the performance work on the new ziggurat sampler. Then I was going to look at a RNG release. This would not be for 2 weeks as I am away next week and so cannot go through the full 3 day vote release before then. So go ahead with a geometry release since it does not require anything from RNG. I do not think RNG-127 will affect anything we currently have in v1.4. I think pushing out v1.4 now under Java 7 and then upgrading to Java 8 for changes that RNG-127 may bring. The use of Java 8 would allow work on a streaming API and also methods to be added as default methods to existing interfaces. It would give more time to digest exactly what to add for RNG-127 while putting out the changes that have built up for v1.4. Alex
