On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 17:52, Chris Rackauckas <rackd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out. Never heard about that one. It seems like its > been dead for quite awhile and they haven't answered any issues in almost a > year, and haven't committed in 8 months? If anyone is on that project, > please join the thread. > > I think there are some major differences though. While they are targeting > MATLAB porting, I am looking for just the useful vectorization routines. > The large difference comes from the fact that since they have a bunch of > tools for working with images and the like, they have a lot of dependencies > (including Tk). I think that makes the package much less useful, especially > since if you want to set it to precompile you'll probably run into issues > if you don't want to deal with some of the dependencies (they don't have > precompile enabled?). However, I think that some of the functions they > implement would do well moving over to VectorizedRoutines.jl, which they > could then import to their larger project.
I see. I never looked at the package but remembered that it was around. If there is no response from them then you should just use their useful bits in your package. M > On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 12:43:04 AM UTC-7, Mauro wrote: >> >> There is https://github.com/MatlabCompat/MatlabCompat.jl, which seems to >> have a similar aim (although sans R/Python support). Maybe join forces? >> >> On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 01:34, Chris Rackauckas <rack...@gmail.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> > Hey, >> > After some discussion (and letting the idea hang around for a long >> time) >> > I decided to create VectorizedRoutines.jl. The idea behind this package >> is >> > to include the useful and familiar vectorized routines that one knows >> and >> > loves from MATLAB/R/Python. An example of such functions include things >> > like meshgrid or accumarray. The reason for the package is three-fold: >> > >> > 1) Such a package will help newcomers who are first trying Julia and >> used >> > to using these functions >> > 2) It will make porting codes to Julia easier (even though it is already >> > easy!) >> > 3) Sometimes these functions are a really quick solution to a problem. >> They >> > can be nice to use! >> > >> > The functions I am looking to store here are ones not included into >> Base. >> > There are good reasons for not wanting to bloat Base with all of these: >> in >> > many cases they are not necessary (nor the best way to things) in Julia >> > because Julia does not require vectorization like other scripting >> > languages. Thus I see a package dedicated to holding these functions >> (while >> > making sure they achieve optimal performance, have proper >> > documentation/testing) as a viable alternative. >> > >> > Please feel free to submit pull requests for your own implementations >> of >> > "popular/familiar" functions you are missing in Julia. Also, feel free >> to >> > submit pull requests for "non-standard" vectorized routines which follow >> > the same vein and are generally useful. Please include a docstring to >> > discuss its usage or have it link to proper documentation. Also, feel >> free >> > to donate some tests! If this begins to build into something really >> useful, >> > I will make sure that this gets proper documentation through >> Documenter.jl >> > and add it to METADATA. >>
