On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Berin Loritsch wrote:
> Henri Yandell wrote: > > This might come across as being a bit bombastic, but there are points in > > there, honest. > > > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Berin Loritsch wrote: > > > > > >>I am proposing to the Avalon team to drop Excalibur IO in favor of > >>Commons IO. That way it is less for us to maintain--and it is a > >>library, not a component. > > > > > > The part of this I disagree with is the 'less for us to maintain'. The way > > Commons is meant to work I thought was that the projects who donated code > > in were the ones who maintained it. > > Well, right now, Commons IO already has everything from Avalon IO. We > have to worry about what's in our CVS as well as here. Who is 'Commons IO' is the question though? I think it's Nicola and I, so half of IO is Avalon :) I'm arguing semantics I think, just trying to avoid any assumption that there is some kind of Commons community who look after Commons IO. > > Now, Avalon isn't in Jakarta now right? However, that's really just > > something that Commons needs to fix about its self-description. > > ;) I'm sure that is merely for the spirit of Java based Apache projects > which means Avalon still applies. Yeah. Commons just needs to clean up some legalese in light of the promotions of Ant/James/Avalon. > > One of the reasons that there's been no release of IO is that [as the only > > person kicking IO stuff around afaik] I've been waiting until there were > > unit-tests for the code in there [and shuffling package names a bit so > > that it has space to grow] and writing the unit-tests takes time, > > especially as I'm being a typical Java coder and thinking I can make a > > framework as nice as the Collections unit-test framework. > > We have a couple rudimentary tests, I am not sure if they are part > of Commons IO yet or not. I think they are. The Avalon classes are probably the better tested of the group from memory. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
