Dear John,

I am sorry you felt uneasy when reading my post. I am sometimes a bit 
ironic, 
but please consider that irony is a friendly and sympathetic way to look at 
things. A pity you couldn't laugh about the comparison with Perl. (I never 
use smileys.)

I followed your advice and, unintendedly being transferred to 0.4, managed 
to 
move back to 0.3.1 -- at the price that some packages (like Cbc) don't 
build 
anymore at the moment. Still I think it is unfortunate to keep interested 
and     
adventurous users away from a development version.

About the names I feel stricter. I don't like terms like 'Nullable' or 
'NullableArrays' (for 'DataArrays'?), terms than seem to fit better for a 
systems programming language than for a technical computing environment. 
I will get used to them, no problem.


On Friday, September 26, 2014 4:12:39 PM UTC+2, John Myles White wrote:
>
> Hans,
>
> The tone of your e-mail is a little odd in my opinion. It seems to imply 
> distrust and even possibly anger for a project that would be substantially 
> better served by participating actively in the issue discussions that Tim 
> Holy discussed. I don't think anyone who's following 0.4's progress would 
> ever believe that 0.4 is not on track. 
>
>  -- John
>
>
>

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