Jason Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:20:20PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> Jason Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I seem to recall that when we met at Stanford this summer, it was >> sort of a "side goal" of yours to write statistical libraries >> that were useful both inside and outside PSPP. If that's still >> the case--I do like the idea--then I'd encourage you to take a >> stab at it. > > That's still the case. I have been taking a stab at it, though > not as much lately as I would like because of work.
Makes sense--glad to hear it. >> Is there a reason to create a separate "statlib" for statistical >> libraries? I don't know of a reason that the existing "lib" >> wouldn't do. The goal of the division of source code in PSPP >> between "lib" and "src" is just a hint that code in "lib" is not >> PSPP-specific, whereas code in "src" is. > > I'm not attached to the name 'statlib' or any other specific name. > If 'lib' is meant to encompass anything that doesn't depend strictly > on PSPP, then 'lib' sounds okay. That's the way I'd like to interpret it. Perhaps we could add a README in the lib directory that states this, so that it's clear to people other than me :-) -- "Implementation details are beyond the scope of the Java virtual machine specification. One should not assume that every virtual machine implementation contains a giant squid." --"Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java" _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
