Re: [collections] JDK5 Branch?

2008-10-14 Thread Viraj Turakhia
I would like to help in generifying collections. How we generally plan? Through emails only or something else? -v On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:47 AM, James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, thanks, Richard! That'd be great! What we need to do is come up > with a plan. If we split this thin

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2008-10-14 Thread Gump
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Re: [collections] JDK5 Branch?

2008-10-14 Thread James Carman
Ok, thanks, Richard! That'd be great! What we need to do is come up with a plan. If we split this thing up, it should be pretty quick work. Are there any other volunteers? I can apply Richard's patches. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Carman writes: > > I

Re: [collections] JDK5 Branch?

2008-10-14 Thread richard
James Carman writes: > Is anyone actively working on that branch? I was thinking of throwing > my hat in the ring to try to help generify collections. I really have > no idea what has been done as of yet. If need be, I can create my own > branch. I offered to help with this last year before

[collections] Proposals for Collections NG

2008-10-14 Thread James Carman
1. Change the root-level package name to org.apache.commons.collections4 (we should jump major version numbers; go to 5 perhaps?) 2. Remove the "functors" from Collections and have collections depend on Commons Functor (Matt Benson has done some great work on functor already!). 3. Since the pa

[collections] JDK5 Branch?

2008-10-14 Thread James Carman
Is anyone actively working on that branch? I was thinking of throwing my hat in the ring to try to help generify collections. I really have no idea what has been done as of yet. If need be, I can create my own branch. - To unsu

Re: [CLI] Trouble with generifying Commons CLI §2: what are the values?

2008-10-14 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Hendrik Maryns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Emmanuel Bourg schreef: >> Hendrik Maryns a écrit : >> >>> Here, one problem is the getValue() method and its relatives. It is not >>> possible to derive from the context which type of value it is supposed >>> to return.

Re: [CLI] Trouble with generifying Commo ns CLI §2: what are the values?

2008-10-14 Thread Hendrik Maryns
Emmanuel Bourg schreef: > Hendrik Maryns a écrit : > >> Here, one problem is the getValue() method and its relatives. It is not >> possible to derive from the context which type of value it is supposed >> to return. The method getValue() itself returns an object, but all >> usage examples I have

Re: Trouble with generifying Commons CLI §2: what are the values?

2008-10-14 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hendrik Maryns a écrit : Here, one problem is the getValue() method and its relatives. It is not possible to derive from the context which type of value it is supposed to return. The method getValue() itself returns an object, but all usage examples I have seen until now return Strings and eve

Trouble with generifying Commons CLI §2: what are the values?

2008-10-14 Thread Hendrik Maryns
Hi, I just wanted to share my experiences here with generifying some of the commons packages. I’ve been through several of them, when I needed them. The last one, just not, is CLI. Here, one problem is the getValue() method and its relatives. It is not possible to derive from the context which