sounds good to me, especially the 'not breaking' part. let's see what you 
commit, maybe we eventually get our builds unit checked if i find time to 
implement that.

..ede

On 02.07.2013 03:57, Landon Blake wrote:
> Ede:
> 
> Let me see if I can provide a little more information.
> 
> I'm proposing the addition of a few utility methods to the Feature and 
> FeatureSchema classes/interfaces. This include methods to clone, compare, and 
> convert the objects to Strings. These are all pretty standard Java utility 
> methods that I try to implement on almost all of my classes.
> 
> None of these new methods break the current OpenJUMP API.
> 
> Having said that, none of these methods are essential, and they don't fix any 
> bugs. I implemented them because they made unit testing easier.
> 
> I'm also proposing to add adaptations of my JUnit text cases for the Feature 
> and FeatureSchema classes/interfaces. The reason for this is simple: We don't 
> do very much unit testing in the OpenJUMP core, and we should. (This is just 
> a first baby step in this direction. I'd like to continue committing unit 
> tests for the OpenJUMP core as I can develop as part of the code I write.)
> 
> Neither the utility methods or the unit tests are critical changes. I'm just 
> trying to be a good citizen by pushing some of my improvements from JUMP-Lib 
> back upstream to OpenJUMP.
> 
> No hard feelings if the community decides these changes aren't improvements. 
> :]
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Landon
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:36 AM, <edgar.sol...@web.de 
> <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>> wrote:
> 
>     On 27.06.2013 05 <tel:27.06.2013%2005>:15, Landon Blake wrote:
>     > I'd like to port some features from JUMP-Lib to OpenJUMP. These 
> features are listed here:
>     >
>     > 
> http://openjumpblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/improvements-from-jump-lib-for-openjump/
>     >
>     > What do you guys think?
>     >
>     > I'm basically adding some standard utility methods to the 
> Feature/BasicFeature and FeatureSchema. I'd also like to add some JUnit tests 
> for Feature/BasicFeature and FeatureSchema to a testing package.
>     >
>     > If there are no strong objections, I can start the work of porting the 
> features one at a time, and post here after each commit so the other 
> programmers can review the changes.
>     >
> 
>     could you describe what the advantages of these changes mentioned on the 
> blog page are? point by point?
> 
>     ..ede
> 
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