Re: [COMPRESS] Changeset design

2009-04-19 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi, I made several changes. - two files with the same name cannot added to the ChangeSet - An "add change" command can have a replace = true or replace = false flag. If true, the add will be added to the stream first. Equal entries from the stream will be skipped. If false, the stream entrie will

[math] MATH-224 - need a better idea

2009-04-19 Thread Phil Steitz
We should be able to find a clean way to do what this enhancement request is asking for. I am feeling stupid because even when I consider breaking compatibility / refactoring to use generics, I can't find a simple way to do it. Here is a description of the current API and some failed ideas th

Re: [math] MATH-224 - need a better idea

2009-04-19 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Phil Steitz a écrit : > We should be able to find a clean way to do what this enhancement > request is asking for. I am feeling stupid because even when I consider > breaking compatibility / refactoring to use generics, I can't find a > simple way to do it. Here is a description of the current AP

Re: [math] MATH-224 - need a better idea

2009-04-19 Thread John Bollinger
I'm looking at commons-math for the first time, but I don't think the feature can be implemented as requested in a manner that is suitably generic. On the other hand, I think the same objective could be achieved a different way without changing the base API at all. The key would be to generate

Re: [math] MATH-224 - need a better idea

2009-04-19 Thread Ted Dunning
That is a fine answer for some things, but the parallel cases fail. My feeling is that there are a few cases where there are nice aggregatable summary statistics like moments and there are many cases where this just doesn't work well (such as rank statistics). For the latter, case I usually make