Hi Both proposals are well thought through and are steps in the right direction.
On 2010-11-11 19:56, Robert Scholte wrote: > hi all, > > I'm making some nice progress on QDox 2.0 but there are some issues for > which I'd like to do a proposal. They will be touching the heart of > QDox, so I'll give everyone a chance to respond. > > 1. Change java prerequisite of QDox to Java5 > Up untill now QDox 1.x this project could be built with java1.4. Main > reason was to support doclets as some sort of annotation-mechanism for > those who couldn't make the leap to java5. > Occording to the Sun/Oracle documentation on Java 1.4.2 [1] is > considered End Of Life since october 30th 2008 (that's over two years > ago). And since QDox is used in much more ways than just an > Annotation solution for pre-java5 stuff, I'd suggest to move to the next > era and use the java5 QDox 2.x so we can make use of a much stronger > language-features > This way we can get rid of duplicate Objects (both an array and a List) > to keep track of certain models, the code is better readable and > maintainable. QDox 2.0 would be the perfect moment to make the switch. > > 2. (Re)move AbstractQdoxTask (for Ant) and APITestCase(for junit3) > Main reason to remove them is that these classes don't belong in the > core-project of QDox, they should be considered projects/ultilities who > make use of QDox. Their required dependencies kind of spoil the > pom. They should at least be moved to separate projects (qdox-anttools > and qdox-junit3tools or something like that) but we might even wonder if > these projects are still worthwhile to maintain. Especially for junit3, > since junit4 is the new standard, which uses... annotations :) So no > need to subclass a TestCase > I'd suggest to remove them, untill users complain about missing > them. They can be added in just a few steps afterwards... > > > I've had a look at the streaming parser, but we need to get a new > feature inside JFlex[2] to have a solid solution. I don't think you can > vote here, but some extra support for this feature would be nice. > > > regards, > > - Robert > > [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/index-jsp-138567.html > [2] > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3089140&group_id=14929&atid=364929 > <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3089140&group_id=14929&atid=364929> -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
