Ha! In that case fanfares to all of you.

D.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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