On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:45:43 -0400, Mike Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 11:30, Joe Germuska wrote: > > > At 10:32 AM -0400 10/1/04, Mike Stanley wrote: > > >I don't think there is a maintainer for this (ultra-tiny but useful), > > >sandbox component. Can someone take the initiative and push the latest > > >build to the repository at ibiblio? Maybe even coordinate a 0.2 release > > >:-) > > > > I'm not the maintainer, but I recently got sandbox karma and I'm > > interested in commons-email. > > > cool. > > > > > > I guess I wouldn't think it appropriate to put on ibiblio as it is > > now. Would you be satisfied with a SNAPSHOT build on the Apache > > "nightly-build/beta" repository? http://cvs.apache.org/repository/ > > > Well, there is currently two different (and old) Snapshot builds on > ibiblio and a very old 0.1 release. I'd prefer to see an updated > snapshot build (with the timestamp format preferably) or something get > put up there. After all the code does work right now, and has changed > significantly since the last snapshot build (the build doesn't even have > the authentication support). > > I would think that moving this to a 0.2 release would be acceptable. > After all 0.2 is still indicates that the code is very pre-pre-alpha. > > > > Maybe I'm making too much of the "sandbox" status and the like, but > > my sense has been that the ibiblio mirror is intended for more > > official, finished stuff. > > > > >In addition, I have a basic class VelocityHtmlEmail that extends > > >HtmlEmail and adds support for setting the Html Msg with a template, and > > >Plain Text Msg with templates. This is very basic, but I find it very > > >useful, especially when working with other developers that aren't > > >familiar with Velocity. I there is interest I will contribute this > > >class to the project. > > > > That sounds interesting. If the class takes the responsibility for > > interacting with Velocity, I kind of feel that it should be in some > > alternate package, to keep the core dependencies lighter -- but for > > one class, that feels a little bit much too. > > > Hmmm.. Personally, I don't think putting it in a different package is > overkill. Adding velocity requires the addition of Velocity.jar to > build, but not to run (unless of course, you use the class ;-).
I'd prefer to avoid a required build-time dependency on something like Velocity. Better would be to borrow the approach Commons Chain uses, and only build Velocity-specific code if the Velocity jar is present. -- Martin Cooper > > > > Once upon a time, I wrote a template abstraction API which could be > > brought to bear on this problem. It was quite simple, but I was able > > to use it to set up templated email that could use Velocity or Jelly > > as template languages. The Jelly template thing was just a proof of > > concept. > > > Alternatively, we can borrow the template abstraction used in Groovy > for this sort of thing. > > > > For now, why don't you file a Bugzilla ticket and attach the source > > for the class. That will put it somewhere where it won't get lost > > while we see if anyone else out there has strong feelings about some > > of these questions... > > > Will do. > > > > > Joe > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
