On 1 April 2011 01:40, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@gmx.de>wrote: > >> Hi Jochen, >> >> Jochen Wiedmann wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Julius Davies <juliusdav...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> I'm confused. We support streaming for Base64 since codec-1.4 (and >> >> now Base32 since codec-1.5). You committed the Base64InputStream >> >> patch, Jochen! >> >> >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-69 >> >> >> >> Is there other streaming you would like to see in commons-codec? >> > >> > >> > Sure, you still dropped a lot of functionality when copying the stuff >> > from ws-commons. The Encoder and Decoder classes from ws-commons are >> > way more abstract and generic than the current codec stuff is and the >> > SAXEncoder is just one example where this is actually useful. Not to >> > mention StAX, NIO, and a lot of other places where streaming codecs >> > might be useful. >> >> Nothing of this (including minimum requirement of Java 5) requires >> automatically 2.x. As long as the API is *upward* binary compatible, you >> can >> improve the implementation using this features, adding new methods or new >> classes. Even generics can be added to some extend in a binary compatible >> way. This has been done for dbcp and there we deliver due to JDBC 3/4 even >> two versions. >> > > I feels like jumping to Java 5 is important enough to go to calling it 2.0.
+1 agreed; it's a non-trivial change to introduce generics. > We could keep it 1.6 until something breaks... Dunno what you mean by that. > Gary > > >> Therefore is the question of Sebb not so limiting as you seem to imply. >> >> - Jörg >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > Thank you, > Gary > > http://garygregory.wordpress.com/ > http://garygregory.com/ > http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/ > http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
