[IMAGING-309] Depend on "Commons Numbers"

• Type: Wish
• Status: Open
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0-alpha6
• Component/s: imaging.common.*
• Labels: dependencies maintainability robustness
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gilles Sadowski
• Created: 11/Aug/21 16:16
• Updated: 18/Apr/24 14:54

Description

It would make sense for high-level components such as [Imaging] to depend on lower level utilities developed within "Commons", such as [Numbers], where

1. changes in dependencies can be controlled by the same team, and
2. JAR hell is not an issue (as per the project's policy on BC).

Both [Imaging] and [Numbers] would benefit from such an ecosystem:

• The low-level component is put to test in an actual use-case.
• The high-level component does not need to maintain lower-level utilities.

Motivation: IMAGING-285

At the time, it might not have made sense to depend on a component like Commons Math (with its ever expanding code base) just for its Fraction class. Nowadays however, "Commons Numbers" provides the functionality in a dedicated maven module.

Issue Links

• is related to: IMAGING-285 Decoding of Rational Numbers broken when large values present
• relates to: IMAGING-358 "RationalNumber" class is "public"