Hey, credit where credit is due. I did \not/ do the initial license-sorting port. I've been cleaning up and filling in after that (aside from one little licensing problem that was not related to LGPL). I think that Jake and Sean get the credit for the heavy lifting.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, as a side note to Benson -- your effort on porting these COLT > collections is appreciated from more than one angle, regardless of the > HPPC discussion. We have been using COLT's math/ matrix packages in C2 > and had a long-open issue of getting rid of the LGPL parts. Solved > now, thanks! > > http://issues.carrot2.org/browse/CARROT-614 > > Dawid > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Let's do this, guys: I have finished the implementation of basic data >> structures. I will try to merge this code with Carrot2, replacing PCJ; >> this should give me an additional level of confidency that everything >> is working fine. I plan to have this step done by Friday. >> >> Then, I will make this code available as a patch (ZIP) file on Mahout >> JIRA for you to have a look at. I am more than fine in maintaining it >> as part of Mahout (and reverting my active committer status), but we >> would need to make sure it's a separate deliverable (separate JAR; >> mahout-hppc; high performance primitive collections... or something). >> >> Hosting this project in Mahout will have the additional bonus of >> polishing the API for computational code. If folks decide it can have >> the life of its own, we can ask for a separate sub-space in the >> commons project. >> >> Sounds good? I'll get back to you on Friday/Saturday. >> Dawid >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Jake Mannix <jake.man...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> It sure feels like it can and should be a module, which depends on no >>>> other Mahout modules. The only barrier is someone willing to do it -- >>>> and looks like we have that. >>>> >>> >>> Right now, mahout-math depends on no other modules, and as of last night, >>> also does not depend on hadoop (yay!), so this should be getting easier to >>> do. >>> >>> The barrier to entry as an eventual commons project is that it still has way >>> more dependencies than typical commons projects, it looks like at first >>> glance. >>> >>> -jake >>> >> >
