Yes, that's the plan. the 'new' plexus-utils FileUtils will for example probably be a slim shim over the commons-io counterpart and just route through.
I now grabbed the Ant SVN codebase and figured that this got imported from CVS in 2004... Happy to report back fixes, but I'm doing almost a blackbox approach for getting the plexus stuff back to the ASF. Of course it's ALv1.1 licensed, but some folks took the provenience in question... Our current approach is to write TCK tests for the codehaus plexus classes and then implement own versions without looking at the original code. LieGrue, strub --- On Thu, 8/11/11, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > From: Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> > Subject: [general] Plexus and Commons code inherited from somewhere else (was > Re: [general] Apache + Meritocracy) > To: dev@commons.apache.org > Date: Thursday, August 11, 2011, 8:56 AM > On 2011-08-11, Mark Struberg wrote: > > > That's great news and even underlines better what > Christian already > > stated: committocracy doen't really work out - not > socially and not > > even technically. > > No argument from my side. > > > The code in question seems to got moved a few times, > so all commit > > history is long time gone. > > > I'll scan the Ant codebase for similarities and pick > the stuff I need > > if that's ok. > > Sure this is OK, and I'm sure the Ant community would love > to get the > bug fixes that have been applied inside of Plexus as > well. This doesn't > have to be a one-way street. > > I see this as a general problem with components that > started off as > forks from other codebases. There are quite a few > commons projects that > have been seeded by code that originally came from Ant, > Avalon, Struts > or other places and at least in the case of Ant the code > bases have > diverged. Ant has always seen itself as sitting at > the bottom of the > dependency stack and thus prefered to not have any > dependencies at all - > that's why we've never embraced Commons. On top of > that nobody told the > Ant community that their code had been forked and so we > could not help > out, but that's water under the bridge. > > In the end the same bugs and shortcomings of the same > original code base > have been fixed by two or three groups in different ways > and it would > certainly be great if we could merge all those collected > fixes. But > honestly I dont know how as the focus of the different dev > groups is too > different. > > At least for your Plexus replacement you should be able to > leverage what > is inside of Commons, though. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
