Just FYI:
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-collections/apidocs/org/apache/commons/collections4/properties/SortedProperties.html

Gary


On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 03:20 Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote:

> Correct. The average use does not care about sorting, so he won't be
> affected by a constantly sorted output. They could remove date already
> because it adds zero benefit to the output.
>
> I like your idea with the property to restore compat.
>
> Am 2021-08-25 um 09:13 schrieb Romain Manni-Bucau:
> > Guess it is only useful if it is done in store() methods and not a new
> one
> > if we want to leverage it before >=8 years (2 more lts + a few) since API
> > cant change for j8.
> > Means the jvm could get a system property to disable the comments and
> sort
> > the keys and a new toggle on the properties object to do the same
> > programmatically per instance.
> >
> > That said Im pretty confident it will not help maven. Only useful thing
> is
> > the escaping of props and it should be trivial to extract and reuse in a
> > collector on j8 instead of using mjar or reflections which both have more
> > cons and need the previous option anyway.
> >
> >
> > Le mer. 25 août 2021 à 08:47, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> a
> écrit :
> >
> >> Am 2021-08-24 um 16:24 schrieb Robert Scholte:
> >>> FYI: A discussion has started on core-libs-dev mailinglist[1] about
> >>> extending java.util.Properties with methods to store  properties files
> >>> in a reproducible way.
> >>> If you have any comments, subscribe to the mailinglist[2] or ask me to
> >>> drop the comments.
> >>
> >> * Date comment must go forever
> >> * Using Optional is purely overengineered, null is more than sufficient
> >> * Shouldn't it be "List<String> comments" for multiline comments?
> >> * A comparator is a nice to have, but not a must. If it is trivial to
> >> implement, why not?
> >>
> >> Finally, unless this is going to land in 11 or 8 as a backport, we won't
> >> be able to use it in the next 5 years or so...
> >>
> >> M
> >>
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