On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 8:45 AM Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:

> Le 15/11/2024 à 17:08, Gary D. Gregory a écrit :
> > FYI: The revert has now been implemented with the exception of keeping
> the change from Commons Codec Base64 to Java 8 Base68.
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> I don't understand your stubbornness on this subject, Commons Compress
> had zero dependencies for over 10 years, the general sentiment from the
> recent discussions seems to point toward avoiding such a dependency
> bloat, your change was never discussed on the list, it broke Commons
> Compress (COMPRESS-666 [1], with a highly ironic bug number), and the
> project was even forked due to this issue.
>
> I highly appreciate your dedication to maintain the Apache Commons
> projects, but you've made an error here. It happens, that's not a big
> deal, but please listen to the community.
>
> Would you accept to resolve this with a vote?
>

That makes no sense to me. Why would a vote change my opinion? I don't
think I can change people's thoughts because a vote says so. That would be
more like mind control ;-)

Gary



>
> Emmanuel Bourg
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-666
>
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