> > > Given that you are currently the main person working on Compress I'd say > - > > whatever you are OK with. > > But you don't really sound super confident/happy about the API - > > otherwise you might not have written this email :) > > TBH I've written this email because my compass for which direction > Compress want to go seems to be severly off. When I started the initial > discussion about how a high level API might look I didn't expect that > those who responded would say "we don't want to maintain a high level > API at all". > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not compaining, not at all, just completely > unsure what the community actually wants.
...and that's actually the main (if not only) reason why I am so hesitant to give a +1 for adding it as is. So far I didn't think the current API is so horrible. But if I (as a user) don't see a benefit in switching then I am wondering about other peoples use cases. ...and whether it's worth adding to maintain. Maybe it's rather worth going into a possible unreleased 2.0 branch? Rethinking the API? .If this only was about example code then I'd be perfectly happy with the > smaller initial idea and probably would even strip out the filtering > parts in order to reduce the number of overloads by half. If we wanted > to provide a useful high level API I'd prefer the second version. > > > I personally would keep both approaches for now - but somewhere > > outside of the official jar. And just give everyone some time to play > > with it. > > Which is another twist I didn't expect. Don't ship the example/high > level stuff with the main artifact at all. Which is also fine with me, > as long as it gets compiled and tested whenever we change "the real > library". > Well, or use an experimental package. Just not a great fan of those. It's like showing users a big red button telling them not to press it. On the other hand - how we get good feedback? It's not like it's a big project with many user on the users list. Right now I only see the option to check maven central for projects that use compress and look at their code. Maybe we get some feedback when they press the red button ;) cheers, Torsten
