Hi Jochen, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Julius Davies <juliusdav...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm confused. We support streaming for Base64 since codec-1.4 (and >> now Base32 since codec-1.5). You committed the Base64InputStream >> patch, Jochen! >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-69 >> >> Is there other streaming you would like to see in commons-codec? > > > Sure, you still dropped a lot of functionality when copying the stuff > from ws-commons. The Encoder and Decoder classes from ws-commons are > way more abstract and generic than the current codec stuff is and the > SAXEncoder is just one example where this is actually useful. Not to > mention StAX, NIO, and a lot of other places where streaming codecs > might be useful. Nothing of this (including minimum requirement of Java 5) requires automatically 2.x. As long as the API is *upward* binary compatible, you can improve the implementation using this features, adding new methods or new classes. Even generics can be added to some extend in a binary compatible way. This has been done for dbcp and there we deliver due to JDBC 3/4 even two versions. Therefore is the question of Sebb not so limiting as you seem to imply. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
