I'm open to changing the name to Splines.jl - I agree that it's clearer and more descriptive. I was hesitant to take up a prime name in the "global package namespace". Tim has probably thought a lot more about splines recently, so maybe he (or any spline experts out there) can comment.
Thanks to Tony, there's now Windows support in master! - Kyle On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:43 AM, David P. Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: > > > El lunes, 27 de octubre de 2014 21:32:40 UTC-6, Kyle Barbary escribió: > >> This is an announcement of Dierckx.jl, a Julia wrapper for the dierckx >> Fortran library from netlib. This is the same library underlying the spline >> classes in scipy.interpolate. >> >> http://github.com/kbarbary/Dierckx.jl >> >> Note: Some of the functionality here overlaps with Grid.jl, Tim Holy's >> pure-Julia interpolation package. This package is intended to complement >> Grid.jl and to serve as a benchmark in cases of overlapping functionality. >> I hope it will be useful to people looking for a direct equivalent of >> scipy.interpolate or in any cases where spline interpolation is a major >> bottleneck. >> >> Contributions, or advice on the correct pronunciation of "Dierckx", >> gratefully accepted. >> > > > This looks nice. > > But I think your last comment hits the nail on the head: wouldn't it be > better, and more Julian, to call the package "Splines.jl"? > > David. > > > >> >> - Kyle >> >
