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173 :: Contributing to the standard library

• ventor3000 (orginal) [2013-07-01T23:39:33+02:00] view original

  I've done some work which I think might be valuable for the nimrod standard library. I'd like to know the policies for whose in charge of reviewing and adding stuff to it? (Araq I guess) How do i proceed?

  What I have for now is:

  1. The iup module fixed/updated to wrap IUP 3.8 (insead of 3.0 RC2 of the old wrapper). This means about a hundred functions was added to the wrapper. Also some stuff that was missing in the old iup module was added. Several bugs is also fixed, that dynlib:s the wrong dll files in some cases. Needs to do some testing under linux thou (to verify correct name of libraries)
  2. A module called 'poly', which implements a real polynomial type TPoly. The most important part is a fast and robust root finder (using recursive diffrentiation), but it can also do standard arithmetic on polynomials and compute derivatives and integrals.
  3. A module named 'numeric', which implements basic numeric functions (for now 'brent' root searching.) I will also add a simpson integrator and som min/max search algorithms to it later.

  I also think of implementing: module cd (wrapper of cd graphics library, which is tightly connected to iup) module bigint (implement infinitly big integers)

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• dom96 (orginal) [2013-07-02T01:12:03+02:00] view original

  Indeed, Ultimately Araq has the final say what is in the stdlib and what isn't.

  However, I would say that most of the modules you implemented could be added to babel's package list.

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• Araq (orginal) [2013-07-02T07:11:55+02:00] view original

  The review process happens via github, just make a pull request. I think 'poly' and 'numeric' are good candidates as common types help interoperability (which is why we also need a decent vector/matrix library soon IMO). Oh and a bignum implemementation in Nimrod would be sweet indeed.

  For IUP it might be better to create a Babel package and remove the old wrapper that we have in the stdlib. In fact, the barely maintained wrappers should move from the stdlib to Babel.

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• ventor3000 (orginal) [2013-07-02T11:31:47+02:00] view original

  I totally agree that wrappers over third party libraries in general should not be considered 'standard' for any programming language. I have mostly worked with svn and mercurial and is not suited with git at all. It seems like many are moving to git thoose days, so I'll find a good tutorial and teach that stuff...

  The modules I implemented was done because I need them for a small program I make. However, I feel it's a good thing to contribute to the standard library. It would be nice to have a list of 'wanted' modules for it. That way it would be easier to contribute. My biggest knowledge is in geometry and mathematics, so I'll se what I can do with some matrix and vector stuff to....

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