We dropped collections in favour of guava and are quite happy with that - but I'd like to see the MultiKey class survive - any chance for that?
2011/4/7 Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> > Hi all guys, > I don't want to hijack the thread but also Discovery was in "critical > care" but we gave it a new life, if it could help saving > commons-collections from the die I'm available to help (just the time > to release discovery) > Have a nice day! > Simo > > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ > http://www.99soft.org/ > > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Looks fun. I've not used Google Collections much; but equally I don't > > use Commons Collections much either :) > > > > Generally I've seen Guava as akin to Joda Time; it's a better JDK > > [obviously for a value of better; but I've liked a lot of what I've > > seen]. Lang is generally just trying to put simple patches on top of > > the JDK. But it's a very fair point and exactly the reason why I don't > > want to try and pull in complex data structures - there are other > > libraries out there focused on them. > > > > For now I'll be ignoring the question to get 3.0 done, then look at > > what in Collections needs to hop on the small Lang lifeboat. > > > > Hen > > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:52 PM, James Ring <s...@jdns.org> wrote: > >> Have you seen > http://google-collections.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/Ordering.html > >> ? This does similar stuff to ReverseComparator and the API is > >> excellent. > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Henri Yandell <flame...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> Deja Vu time. > >>> > >>> Collections is dead. I hereby give notice that there are a few basic > >>> classes in Collections that I want to copy into Lang and genericize > >>> (ComparableComparator, ReverseComparator etc - dull stuff instead of > >>> serious data structures). > >>> > >>> Vision-wise I'm seeing that as Lang 3.1 (i.e. JIRA's 3.1 is noise; in > >>> fact I'll rename that to 3.x :) ). > >>> > >>> Hen > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >>> > >>> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- -- David J. M. Karlsen - http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkarlsen
