> On 16 Oct 2015, at 12:56, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Personally I do not want to be forced to deploy R or whatever when I deploy 
> Pharo. Period. 
but why would you?
now… if you have to use a special function, you might need to install a 
package+an external library. 


> We have enough dependencies to external libraries dll and other. 
> If for one of your project you want to use a hyper cool super hyper coool 
> external libraries then perfect. Not for Pharo. 
no one said this is going to be in Pharo, AFAIR

> 
> Now we should focus on what is important for core pharo and my remark is 
> about the core. 
> 
> About the FFI, would be good that people stop complaining and help. 
>     We supported Igor NB (Laurent wrote a tutorial that I spent time to 
> revisit even if I never did a FFI call) so where were you?
> 
>     Where are you pharoers when it is about to write something for the 
> community?
> 
>     For your information we are in discussion with ronie (I do not know the 
> status of his back-end), 
>     esteban spent 4 months working on a new FFI front-end using NB syntax and 
> back end using FFI. The idea is that we can plug the back-end of ronie. 
> 
>     Our team on his **own** money will invite ronie to work with us (Now we 
> lost the money of our of our sponsors so times will be difficult). 
> 
> Stef
> 
> 
> Le 15/10/15 14:18, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit :
>> yeah but if this is a special case there is no problems on doing FFI 
>> bindings and using an external library. 
>> Precisely for that is FFI.
>> 
>> not that we have to integrate everything into the image :)
>> 
>> but… I would not be so fast in assume pharo performance will not be enough. 
>> Unique form to know it is to do it and then see how you can optimise, if 
>> needed :)
>> 
>> Esteban
>> 
>>> On 15 Oct 2015, at 09:51, stepharo < 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We do not want to be bound to install and maintain connection with fifteen 
>>> different libs. 
>>> 
>>> Stef
>>> 
>>> Le 14/10/15 18:01,  
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]> a écrit :
>>>> Not sure you would get enough performance on Pharo per se. Xe may be 
>>>> better off leveraging a multicore enabled external lib. Like caret and 
>>>> doMC on R.
>>>> 
>>>> Le 14 oct. 2015 17:49, "Serge Stinckwich" <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>>>> I don't think so.
>>>> 
>>>> I followup your message on SciSmalltalk mailing-list.
>>>> This is something that might interested us ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Damien Cassou <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > did anyone implement a Random Forest algorithm in Pharo?
>>>> >
>>>> >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest 
>>>> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest>
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Damien Cassou
>>>> > http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st 
>>>> > <http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st/>
>>>> >
>>>> > "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
>>>> > losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
>>>> >
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Serge Stinckwich
>>>> UCBN & UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC)
>>>> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
>>>> http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/ <http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/>
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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