Re: Re: wolframs packages

Hi Stefan Neufeind, you wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 at 14:43:26, Michael Wallner wrote: > >> Hi Lukas Smith, you wrote: >> >>> Wolfram is appreantly very busy and would therefore be willing to >>> have other people take over his packages. >>> >>> 2) I18N Internationalization package >> >> Hm, there's already I18Nv2. > > > I guess that's what Lukas meant. Yeah, I just meant "don't beat a dead horse". :) AFAIK Martin has promised to work out a pearweb patch for marking packages as deprecated. VW doesn't build the old beetle anymore... >>> 3) Tree Generic tree management, currently supports DB and >>> XML as data sources >> >> I'm already working on some PEAR::Tree alternative. Yeah, I know >> there's already Tree (competive packages etc...) and Wolfram may be >> a great visionaire, but his sources are always kinda messy and >> current Tree's API and object model is extra-ordinary complicated. > > > Hmm, so I assume you have already worked with the current > Tree-implementation, when you discovered it's limitations? Then maybe > you would take over Tree and vastly improve it where possible or if > it really requires BC-breaks would build an official Tree2 with > extended functionality? Well I kind of tried to use it, but may be I'm too quickly dis-satisfied. Grepp'ing FIXX or TODO on pear/Tree counts 16 and i know that it is not fun to dig into 170 kB of Wolframs code - it always seems to be bursting at the seams with unfinished ideas. My implementation is object based and has yet about 40 kB and will have, let's say, 60 to 70 kB when it's mostly finished. Because of using objects it was fairly simple to implement kind of an XPath API with ancestor(), ancestorOrSelf(), descendant(), descendantOrSelf(), followingSibling(), following(), precedingSibling() and so on (which are very usefull when working with a tree - at least in my POV). It's a pity that I didn't sync the latest sources with CVS and I'll return to this topic soon. Regards, -- Michael - < mike(@)php.net >

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