Re: Problems installing Mahout

2010-04-06 Thread Sean Owen
I'm ready to patch this issue, but I went the other way -- fixed the output to use Locale.ENGLISH. Either way works, what's preferred to you guys? Is it making the output deterministic, or locale-friendly? I opted for fixing it to Locale.ENGLISH because I like not depending on the platform, and be

Re: Problems installing Mahout

2010-04-05 Thread Sean Owen
(BCC mahout-user, moving to mahout-dev) Alrighty I think the subtlety here is that: String.format("%.2f", foo) ... will format numbers in a locale-specific way. I think we need: String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "%.2f", foo) (Sorry to be English-centric, but we have to pick one locale in order to