Posted by John Klehm on Jan 13, 2012; 10:24am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/RFC-vecmath-added-to-jogamp-tp3655995p3656292.html

> No, we didn't AFAIK.
> JOGL used this namespace from it's beginning.

OK I admit fairly new to this but my statement was based on the wikipedia I ingested it went something like this:
Java3D released 1998 discontinued 2004, mentions being built on top of JOGL which was at one time developed by the Sun Game Technology group.  I guess I just assumed that they dropped it in 2004 and it's been maintained here since then.  If that's wrong my bad for assuming.  Is there a project history posted somewhere?  I'm merely curious.

> license of vecmath ? size ?
License is GPL, I see you guys are BSD. I'll come back to this later.

Size is pretty small. Javadoc is here:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17802_01/j2se/javase/technologies/desktop/java3d/forDevelopers/j3dapi/javax/vecmath/package-summary.html

This just captures the basic vector and matrix math that you'd need to do for even the simplest use of opengl.  Sure you can use some other packages math stuff but like you say smaller is better.  Let's keep it simple and light weight and just enough to avoid having to pull in another package for vector cross product or a matrix multiply.

> since we internally don't use vecmath and since you easily can add it
> to your project since it already exists - why adding it ?

We'll as adding it is pretty much out as the license isn't compatible yes?  I guess what I ran into was that if you are using JOGL you are almost guaranteed to be using some kind of vector/matrix maths cpu side too.  Why not have something lightweight and simple so people can avoid having to pull in a much heavier package just for cross products and transposes or waste time rolling their own vector math code.  I know I've created a fair bit.

I agree smaller is better but it just seems that when you're always using two things together perhaps it'd be nice to get them in one spot.