Hi, Martin, Forgive my ignorance, but is there a movement afoot to put a new standard in place for units handling? The tone of your reply leads me to believe that there isn't anything particularly imminent, and my own (admittedly paltry) research leads me back to the same choice you posed in the original email on this thread. If you don't mind, what do you see as the trade-offs between a JSR 275 style interface and that of org.unitsofmeasurement? I'm reading both now to familiarize myself with the APIs, but I'd value an opinion from someone who's been involved for some time.
Joe On Dec 5, 2012, at 9:50 PM, Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Joe > > Le 05/12/12 09:00, Joe White a écrit : >> I'm also with Chris on this. If we can find a package to handle the dirty >> bits and wrap it with the correct interfaces to get us through, then move to >> a "better" implementation as we go, I think we should. Does anyone have any >> suggestions for a library that is nicely licensed that has this >> functionality? > > I do have an implementation that we could put under Apache license in SIS. > Actually in this issue, the implementation part is the easiest aspect. The > more difficult question is which API, assuming that we would like something > as close to a standard as possible. A future JSR being uncertain two years > after the end of JSR-275, org.unitsofmeasurement may be the only realistic > choice... > > Martin >
