On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 8:24 PM Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. > > Le dim. 10 mai 2020 à 15:34, Isira Seneviratne <isirase...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > > > > I hope my answer was helpful. If you need any more information, please > let > > me know. > > Please explain, by example, how we would go in order to provide a Kotlin > release? > Sorry for the late reply. I was asleep. I was thinking of adding extension functions that map to the methods provided in the Utils classes (however, some methods, such as StringUtils' isNotEmpty(), do not need to be mapped as there are similar functions in the Kotlin standard library). > IIUC, your PR does not cover all of [Lang] (?). > Yeah, I was only thinking of covering the Utils classes (unless anyone has any other suggestions as well?) > Might be worth posting in a new thread (with the "[ALL]" prefix). > Why is that? > > Thanks, > Gilles > > > > On Sun, May 10, 2020, 7:03 PM Isira Seneviratne <isirase...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 10, 2020, 6:55 PM Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi. > > >> > > >> In what consists the "porting"? Could you give an example? > > >> > > > > > > Of course. > > > > > > Extension functions and properties are a language feature of Kotlin, > which > > > allow a function/property to be called from a variable as if it was > part of > > > the original class declaration: > > > https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/extensions.html > > > > > > > > >> If it's straightforward and can be automated, it might be worth > > >> creating the port for all the Commons components (as part of > > >> the release) in a move that can potentially expand our team of > > >> developers (if Kotlin programmers are willing to participate to > > >> the "upstream" Java project, of course). > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> Gilles > > >> > > >> >> [...] > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
