Re: [lang] Divesting the commons.lang.math package

2010-01-11 Thread Stephen Colebourne
Divest? I object to removing Fraction from [lang], as its a very core concept tat is missing from the JDK. And thee are many users who would just want Fraction and none of the rest of the [math] library. The [lang] maths package is fo non-mathematicians. The [math] library is for serious

Re: [lang] Divesting the commons.lang.math package

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Benedict
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Stephen Colebourne scolebou...@btopenworld.com wrote: Divest? I object to removing Fraction from [lang], as its a very core concept tat is missing from the JDK. And thee are many users who would just want Fraction and none of the rest of the [math] library.

RE: [lang] Divesting the commons.lang.math package

2010-01-11 Thread Gary Gregory
Subject: Re: [lang] Divesting the commons.lang.math package On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Stephen Colebourne scolebou...@btopenworld.com wrote: Divest? I object to removing Fraction from [lang], as its a very core concept tat is missing from the JDK. And thee are many users who would

Re: [lang] Divesting the commons.lang.math package

2010-01-10 Thread Paul Benedict
Without any further input (over a week), I say it's safe to divest. On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Luc Maisonobe luc.maison...@free.fr wrote: Henri Yandell a écrit : On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Paul Benedict pbened...@apache.org wrote: This is how I believe the commons.lang.math package

Re: [lang] Divesting the commons.lang.math package

2010-01-03 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Henri Yandell a écrit : On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Paul Benedict pbened...@apache.org wrote: This is how I believe the commons.lang.math package can be eliminated. Based on the current 3.0-SNAPSHOT API, there are only three classes left: Fraction IEEE754rUtils NumberUtils 1)

[lang] Divesting the commons.lang.math package

2010-01-02 Thread Paul Benedict
This is how I believe the commons.lang.math package can be eliminated. Based on the current 3.0-SNAPSHOT API, there are only three classes left: Fraction IEEE754rUtils NumberUtils 1) Fraction should leave; it is completely inappropriate for this library. It has nothing to do with the JDK or

Re: [lang] Divesting the commons.lang.math package

2010-01-02 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Paul Benedict pbened...@apache.org wrote: This is how I believe the commons.lang.math package can be eliminated. Based on the current 3.0-SNAPSHOT API, there are only three classes left: Fraction IEEE754rUtils NumberUtils 1) Fraction should leave; it is