Re: [math] should version 2.0 be targeted to Java 5 ?

2008-05-11 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Luc Maisonobe skrev den 11-05-2008 18:27: My personal opinion is that sticking to Java 1.3 is really obsolete and difficult. When I upgraded my Linux box recently, I had to search old backups to reinstall a JDK manually. Dropping this could simplify some codes (exceptions for example) and fix

Re: [functor] Revisited?

2008-04-02 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Matt Benson skrev den 01-04-2008 23:30: --- James Carman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, what version would you use for the non-genericized functor? 1.0? Then, the genericized version should be 2.0 (with o.a.c.functor2 package names)? Good questions! I suppose that's the thing to do

Re: Commons net - any ftp servers supporting COMPRESSED_TRANSFER_MODE?

2008-03-27 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Oberhuber, Martin skrev den 26-03-2008 13:31: This must be nonstandard. I could not find any reference to "TYPE C" or "TYPE Z" in the RFCs, or other references linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol What products support "TYPE Z" ? The page I saw in passing while

Commons net - any ftp servers supporting COMPRESSED_TRANSFER_MODE?

2008-03-26 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
The commons net package supports setting the file type to COMPRESSED_TRANSFER_MODE which results in a "TYPE C" being sent to the server. I looked around but have been unable to locate any links to a server which actually supports this. Apparently "TYPE Z" is used in some products to have the

Re: [VOTE] Release Lang 2.4 (RC2)

2008-03-15 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Gary Gregory skrev den 15-03-2008 02:08: The build looks good on all 9 SDKs I tested: http://garygregory.com/os/builds/commons-lang-2.4/index.html In case you are interested the IBM JDK is available as part of their IBM Developer package for Java. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jd

Re: commons-vfs current status?

2008-02-29 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Mark Fortner skrev den 29-02-2008 17:18: I have an NFS implementation (using Sun's YANFS implementation) that I'm in the process of testing. I also have GUI components (a file chooser, and a basic file browser) in addition to a metadata API for reading image and MS Office metadata. I'd be glad

Re: commons-vfs current status?

2008-02-29 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Mario Ivankovits skrev den 29-02-2008 10:41: Hi, IMHO major problem is the necessary environment. You may have one or two of the supported external virtual file systems, but as soon as you start to modify core classes, you have no clue about the effects for the other systems ... :-/

Re: svn commit: r628395 - in /commons/proper/configuration/branches/configuration2_experimental/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/configuration2: beanutils/BeanHelper.java interpol/ConfigurationInterpo

2008-02-17 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Emmanuel Bourg skrev den 17-02-2008 23:36: it's less annoying after a comma : foo.doSomething(param1, param2, param2); I have found it convenient to introduce explanatory variables, named according to the parameter they are to be assigned (which sho

Re: [io] 2.0 Moving to minimum of JDK 1.5

2008-02-06 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Stephen Colebourne skrev den 06-02-2008 12:00: IMO, Java 5+ is almost a different language to pre Java 5. The fact that the Java community has taken ages to move up is a sign of this. I believe that the sole reason for this is that Sun chose to enforce that Java 5 could only compile to byt

Re: [exec] How to support the various Logging APIs?!

2008-01-13 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Siegfried Goeschl skrev den 10-01-2008 13:41: I changed the code to use stdout/stderr per default to make commons-logging an optional dependency but the question remains - should we support logging libraries within commons-exec? Hi. I have been very pleased with the slf4j API for logging,

Re: [configuration] JDK compatibility

2007-12-16 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Oliver Heger skrev den 13-12-2007 08:16: - Does a switch in the JDK version require a major release? Please keep any changes in environmental requirements to a major release. I for one expect that 1.Y may replace 1.X without any thought. -- Thorbjørn --

Re: POLL: Anyone interested in a new CONCURRENT component

2007-10-25 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Oliver Zeigermann skrev den 03-10-2007 22:29: Right. Such a component would contain evertything that is NOT in j.u.c., but still useful. This means it, it would be an addtion, not a replacement for j.u.c. You might find http://dcl.mathcs.emory.edu/util/backport-util-concurrent/index.php in

Re: Commons Net 1.4.x Service Release?

2007-09-18 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Rory Winston skrev den 17-09-2007 23:13: Hi Martin (and anyone else who may have commented on this topic) I have been working on and off (not so much recently due to lack of time) on a release for commons-net. I was planning to make a 2.0 release and not specifically release from the 1.4 branc

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-29 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Filip Defoort skrev den 27-08-2007 18:01: Good luck doing that cross platform in java :) Well, I didn't mean mount as in actually mount a file system, just unzip and maintain an uncompressed directory tree of the portions of the zip file that are in use in java.io.tmpdir. Right now truezip is