Hi Gilles, Definitely interested in helping and learning more about random (number|string|object|etc) generators.
Are there any specific tasks that others can jump in and help with? Once the new component has been set up, I'd be happy in trying to work on code related to LANG-1196 and LANG-1254. Cheers Bruno >________________________________ > From: Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> >To: dev@commons.apache.org >Sent: Sunday, 16 October 2016 5:08 AM >Subject: [ALL] Get things moving with "random utilities" (Was: [lang] >Shuffling arrays (was: [RNG] Scope of "Commons RNG")) > > >Hi. > >On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 16:00:05 +0100, sebb wrote: >> [...] >>> >>> But overall it would be much better to put all this in a new >>> component >>> and deprecate all of CL's "Random"-parameterized methods. >>> It was noted (not only by me) that CL grew too big (and out of its >>> original >>> scope). "RandomUtils" is relatively small (in Lang 3.4): now is a >>> good >>> opportunity to deprecate these few methods and those intended for >>> 3.5 >>> and redirect users to a dedicated component. >> >> +1 >> >>> >>> [...] > >Within the context of a forthcoming release of "Commons RNG" and >identified shortcomings of the random-related utilities implemented >in "Commons Lang", e.g.: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1196 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1254 >I'm proposing to ask INFRA to create a new git repository, to become >the "Commons" home of random utilities, i.e. anything that _uses_ an >"external" source of randomness (as opposed to _implementations_ >of (P)RNG algorithms, which is the scope of "Commons RNG"). > >Examples of utilities: > * non-uniform deviates (to be extracted from "Commons Math") > * extended tools, such as "numbers within a range" (to be > extracted from "Commons Lang") and "quasi-random" generators > (to be extracted from "Commons Math"), > * string utilities (to be extracted from "Commons Math" and > "Commons Lang"), > * shuffling of primitive arrays and "List<T>" (to be extracted > from "Commons Math"), > * bridges between alternative APIs: > - java.util.Random > - java.util.SplittableRandom > - UniformRandomProvider from "Commons RNG" (to be extracted > from "Commons Math") > - other Java libraries > * wrappers around "external" sources of randomness, e.g. system > devices (UNIX) and native libraries, and interface extensions > needed to support them (streams, IO handling, etc.). > >Given the variety of the above (non-exhaustive) list, it is >foreseen that the component will be "multi-modules"[1] in order >to let users depend only on what they need for their use-case. >[For example, an engineering application could need non-uniform >deviates (e.g. Gaussian-distributed sequences), but should not >be required to depend on the (orthogonal) development of string >generators or cryptographic features.] > > >Regards, >Gilles > >[1] Help is most welcome to set this up. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
