Re: The alphanum algorithm

2007-12-19 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Jerome Louvel wrote: However, there appear to be three authors/contributors, so we would need to get the agreement and JCA of all of them which complicates things a bit. Given the algorithm description in English, just write the code yourself from scratch and

Re: The alphanum algorithm

2007-12-19 Thread Paul J. Lucas
On Dec 19, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Rob Heittman wrote: I have concerns about doing an independent implementation because it would likely bear substantial resemblance to yours. As long as you do a clean room implementation, i.e., you'd swear under oath that you didn't look at the original code,

Re: The alphanum algorithm

2007-12-19 Thread David Koelle
But at this point, doing such a thing would amount to lying, wouldn't you agree? Paul J. Lucas pauljlucas at mac.com writes: As long as you do a clean room implementation, i.e., you'd swear under oath that you didn't look at the original code, it doesn't matter how much it resembles the

Re: The alphanum algorithm

2007-12-19 Thread Rob Heittman
On 12/19/07, David Koelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But at this point, doing such a thing would amount to lying, wouldn't you agree? In my case, certainly. I could not claim to not have been exposed to the source. And in any case, I would prefer to be able to credit the original proponent of

Re: The alphanum algorithm

2007-12-19 Thread Davide Angelocola
On Wednesday 19 December 2007 16:55:05 Jerome Louvel wrote: Hi Davide, This is smart. I wish we could use it in the Directory as well. Two issues: - as the code is LGPL or GPL we need to add a dependency to NRE and/or Restlet API JARs - it may add a performance cost to the rendering of

The alphanum algorithm

2007-12-18 Thread Davide Angelocola
Hi, I'm wondering if applying the alphanum algorithm to the Directory would be useful for restlet. The details are here: http://www.davekoelle.com/alphanum.html -- Best Regards, Davide Angelocola