--- On Wed, 5/13/09, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote:
> From: James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>
> Subject: Re: [all] Rebooting commons projects
> To: "Commons Developers List" <dev@commons.apache.org>
> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 7:13 PM
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:21 PM,
> Stephen Colebourne
> <scolebou...@btopenworld.com>
> wrote:
> > STOP everyone, please! Go back and read the original
> email.
> >
> > The name of the new project isn't the point of this
> discussion at all. Right
> > now I don't give a damn about the name.
>
> The point (at least mine) is that we don't *need* to create
> a new
> project here. We have the ability (if we jump major
> version numbers
> and change package names) to be innovative with the
> existing projects.
> We don't have to guarantee backward compatibility between
> major
> versions.
>
This has historically been the view taken in Commons, and I'm not seeing a
consensus to change that view. In the concrete case of functor/collections it
seems that Stephen is amenable to, over time, removing functor support from
collections altogether, which IMHO is a satisfactory compromise. We just need
to make sure that anything [collections] does with functors has an analogous
operation in [functor], and maybe a nice writeup of how to use
[functor]-provided collection operations instead of [collections]'.
-Matt
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