Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-08-01 Thread Henri Yandell
On 7/31/06, Andres Almiray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ugh! I hope you feel better by now. Not much :) I'd like to see commons-convert get a restart though - it's functionality I've needed many times and come up with various intentionally non-generic solutions (having seen how bogged down the

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-08-01 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
2006/7/31, Kris Nuttycombe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd be happy to donate a little time, if someone could give a report on what the current state of the project is and what needs to be done. Data conversion is a significant issue where I work. I guess convert is much more about converting one Java

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-08-01 Thread Kris Nuttycombe
I guess when I think about data conversion, I think of it in terms of converting between Java object types, so I think our goals may mesh well and I just didnt' express myself very clearly. For example, if convert gets back up and running there are a number of things that I'll want to drop in

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-08-01 Thread Andres Almiray
--- Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: What are your thoughts on the current API in commons-convert? It's much simpler to start with that and start improving that to get a new codebase + software grant added in. Is it much the same, or is there a critical design difference?

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-08-01 Thread Stephen Colebourne
Oliver Zeigermann wrote: 2006/7/31, Kris Nuttycombe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd be happy to donate a little time, if someone could give a report on what the current state of the project is and what needs to be done. Data conversion is a significant issue where I work. I guess convert is much more

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-08-01 Thread Henri Yandell
On 8/1/06, Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Zeigermann wrote: 2006/7/31, Kris Nuttycombe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd be happy to donate a little time, if someone could give a report on what the current state of the project is and what needs to be done. Data conversion is a

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-08-01 Thread Andres Almiray
--- Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On 8/1/06, Stephen Colebourne I think that a key issue with its failure first time around was scope. Personally, I would be quite comfortable to see [convert] only support conversion between Objects and Strings and vice versa. ie. a very

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-08-01 Thread Andres Almiray
--- Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMHO, anything else leads into much more difficult design choices, and leads beyond the range of commons. For example, I know that there is at least one sf project doing Object to Object conversions already (but I can't find a reference). Can

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-07-31 Thread Kris Nuttycombe
I'd be happy to donate a little time, if someone could give a report on what the current state of the project is and what needs to be done. Data conversion is a significant issue where I work. Kris Andres Almiray wrote: Hi, Is anyone interested in restarting the project ? Following

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-07-31 Thread Henri Yandell
(and then I promptly picked up a stomach bug and my weekend was a waste of time). On 7/28/06, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll send some thoughts at the w/e - I've been afk for most of the week at oscon. Hen On 7/28/06, Andres Almiray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is anyone

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-07-31 Thread Andres Almiray
Ugh! I hope you feel better by now. In the meantime I've been reshaping the original code from json-lib to be more friendly. There were too many array converters; now there are the 9 array converters only: 8 primitive and 1 generic (works with any converter). The last statement on the

[convert] Project restart ?

2006-07-28 Thread Andres Almiray
Hi, Is anyone interested in restarting the project ? Following https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-274, Henri Yandell expressed interest in allowing multidimensional array conversions for ArrayUtils, we agreed that a patch fo ArrayUtils would be too large and that it would be best to try

Re: [convert] Project restart ?

2006-07-28 Thread Henri Yandell
I'll send some thoughts at the w/e - I've been afk for most of the week at oscon. Hen On 7/28/06, Andres Almiray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is anyone interested in restarting the project ? Following https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-274, Henri Yandell expressed interest in