sunif() in Rmath

[ViralBShah]

sunif.c in the external Rmath library should use the RNG from librandom, rather than its own.

[ViralBShah]

Depends on #353

[JeffBezanson]

Why is this so important? Can we port a couple important functions, then leave the rest to extras? I'm not convinced we want Rmath in the standard library.

[ViralBShah]

These are kind of like fdlibm, from what I can tell. Is base the std library? It seems a bit odd to define a std library going by what ships with matlab. I dont care where we put it, so long as there is a way to put it outside of extras.

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On 11-Apr-2012, at 4:23 AM, JeffBezansonreply@reply.github.com wrote:

Why is this so important? Can we port a couple important functions, then leave the rest to extras? I'm not convinced we want Rmath in the standard library.

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[JeffBezanson]

I'm not thinking about matlab at all here. I'm just wondering what functions we need/want from Rmath, how many of them are there, and whether we really need to include the whole thing, just in the interest of keeping base as small as possible and reducing the number of things that need to build successfully to be able to use julia.

[ViralBShah]

It has about the same number of functions from what I can tell, and we do need them all in the julia core distribution. Rmath.jl is more or less complete from what I can tell.

I agree that they are not relevant to be in base, and many of the current things in base can be moved out as well. My ideal situation would be to have any external library dependency not be in base. If there is an external dependency that is needed in base (pcre, double-conversion, etc.), it would be nice to check those into external. That way, people can download julia source and build it quickly.

Should we have an stdlib, that has non-base but close to production-ready code? Anything in extras should not actually ship.

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On 11-Apr-2012, at 9:38 AM, JeffBezanson wrote:

I'm not thinking about matlab at all here. I'm just wondering what functions we need/want from Rmath, how many of them are there, and whether we really need to include the whole thing, just in the interest of keeping base as small as possible and reducing the number of things that need to build successfully to be able to use julia.

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[ViralBShah]

Implemented in #773