On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Scott Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe because it seems that a lot of the major packages have been put into > Base, so it isn't a problem, as MA Laforge pointed out, leading to Base > being incredibly large,
That's absurd. There are 500 packages. We added Dates and...what else? We would like Base to be a bit smaller (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5155), but "incredibly large" is a bit of an overstatement. It's *nothing* compared to matlab's default namespace for example. > with stuff that means Julia's MIT license doesn't mean all that much, > because it includes GPL code by default... So the license of the entire compiler, runtime, and 90%+ of the standard library doesn't "mean much"? Ouch. In any case Viral started adding a flag to exclude GPL libs last week. The changes for that are tiny. I'm still confused about MongoDB vs. TokuMX. In your last post about them you mentioned using them as drop-in replacements for each other. But before that you said they are competitors, and won't necessarily implement the same interface. If they have incompatible interfaces, how can they be drop-in replacements? I don't get it.
