On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > The clirr report run from the current MATH_2_X branch is, as expected, > problematic. To get 2.2. out, we need to agree on what breaks we are going > to allow and what we are going to fix. Here is a first cut and proposal > for some immediate fixes that I would appreciate feedback on. > > 0) The improvements to the distributions classes to add characteristic > support and positive mass domains have added some new methods to interfaces > and new abstract methods to abstract classes. I apologize for not spotting > this in initial patch reviews or being clear in discussion of the > features. I think we can keep the functionality without introducing the > compatibility breaks by removing the added methods from interfaces / > abstract classes. The only painful part is the nice solution for caching > numerical characteristics that will have to be repeated in the > implementation classes that need it. I would like to proceed with these > changes in the 2.2 branch if others are OK with it.
Fixed > > 1) Removed superclasses in the exception hierarchy. I am OK leaving these > as is. I am now starting to wonder if we should fix this. Problem is user code that may be catching the superclass exceptions (which is why clirr is complaining). > > I don't know what, if anything, to do about the following: > > 2) Changed return type of interpolate in BicubicSpline. Fixed > > 3) Incompatible changes in the ode package. I agree that unfortunately this is hopeless. > > 4) Incompatible changes in the optimization package. Fixing... Phil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
