Am 11.11.2009 22:48, Martin Buchholz schrieb:


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:46, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org <mailto:scolebou...@joda.org>> wrote:

    Martin Buchholz wrote:

        On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:10, Ulf Zibis <ulf.zi...@gmx.de
        <mailto:ulf.zi...@gmx.de> <mailto:ulf.zi...@gmx.de
        <mailto:ulf.zi...@gmx.de>>> wrote:
           At least, IMO, fileSeparator() and pathSeparator() would
        belong to
           java.io.File or java.nio.file.FileSystem.
        Those would have been better names,
        but at this point they are not worth adding.


I don't follow - why are they not worth adding now?

Because java.io.File already provides the functionality users need.
Not in the best way - as fields instead of methods, and
only the first char of the system property.  But it's not broken enough
to be worth fixing by providing a slightly better API.

Sorry for not have checked that (misleaded by request from weijun.w...@sun.com 46 hours ago)

IMO, of course.
    Becuase they should have been in JDK 1.0? Because JDK 7 is about
    to release? Some other reason? How and who is deciding?


it's a hard problem, and one that Sun/JCP/OpenJDK still needs to address.

I know this problem, see:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100091, 100092, 100095, 100098, 1000104, 1000105, 1000107 and plenty patches from others.
Most of them not even just have sponsors :-(
Seems to be work for garbage. Only few externals have chance for contribution, mostly ex-employees from Sun.

I guess right now folks are waiting for the Oracle acquisition.

Hopefully!

-Ulf


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