Re: [POLL]: Dropping JDK 1.3 support for Xerces-J?

2010-07-10 Thread sebb
+1 for dropping support for 1.3 1.5 has a better memory model but as far as I know, this is part of the JVM, rather than depending on the compiler, i.e. merely running under 1.5 will help (please correct me if I'm wrong!). Switching to 1.5 involves a lot of work initially (generics, annotations) b

Re: DOM thread safety issues & disapearring children

2011-06-10 Thread sebb
On 9 June 2011 17:51, Newman, John W wrote: > Thanks Michael.  That’s the response I’ve been waiting for.  This whole > situation is really unfortunate, since it’s not even my code that is missing > the required locking, and the developers of that faulting code have pretty > decent justification f

Re: [REVISED VOTE]: Xerces-J 2.12.0 release

2018-04-22 Thread sebb
On 21 April 2018 at 06:27, Mukul Gandhi wrote: > Hi all, >The 1st voting for Xerces-J 2.12.0 release was stopped, due to certain > issues that were in the release candidates (RC) that were found by the > reviewers ([5]). Those have been fixed now, and I'm initiating this new mail > for the Vot

Re: [REVISED VOTE]: Xerces-J 2.12.0 release

2018-04-23 Thread sebb
On 23 April 2018 at 11:04, Mukul Gandhi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 3:19 PM, sebb wrote: > >> Contains MD5 hashes; these are deprecated and should be removed. > > > I alone can't decide on this (though I sort of agree with you). Lets see how > others react

Maven release (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available)

2018-05-14 Thread sebb
I suggest that those who wish to see deployment of the release artifacts to Maven Central provide a script (plus docs) to do so. Note that the project uses Ant to build Xerces. Also Apache uses Nexus to stage and release Maven artefacts. Any solution should not require the project to change the

Re: Maven release (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Apache Xerces-J 2.12.0 now available)

2018-05-17 Thread sebb
for > upload to sonatype. > > https://github.com/mebigfatguy/fb-contrib/blob/spotbugs/build.xml > > > > On 05/14/2018 05:03 AM, sebb wrote: >> >> I suggest that those who wish to see deployment of the release >> artifacts to Maven Central provide a script (plus d

Re: Parsing a file inside a zip file locking zip file on windows

2018-07-16 Thread sebb
IIRC when Windows opens files for read (or write) it locks them against deletion. You need to ensure that you close the file before you try to delete it. On 16 July 2018 at 21:37, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Matt, > > I think this is a general problem of the JarURLConnection, especially if in > ca