Interesting. I think there is some collision with FileUtils listFiles.
Using IO's current file filters you can currently specify quite complex
search expressions. If I interpret correctly FindingFilter can only do a
logical AND. On the other side FileFinder look a bit more sophisticated
than
WildcardUtils look general enough that it could go into commons-lang, but then of
course you introduce a dependency, which seems to give some people a lot more
heartburn than it gives me. I hate to see classes put into the wrong library just to
avoid even dependencies that make sense.
Caswell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 September 2004 12:07
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Subject: Re: [io] find API Was: [IO] DOSFileFilter
WildcardUtils look general enough that it could go into commons-lang,
but then of course you introduce a dependency, which seems to give some
people
Not time to commit tonight, but it's at:
http://www.osjava.org/genjava/multiproject/gj-find/xref/index.html
WildcardUtils.
It's tempting to commit most of gj-find to IO. A Java API with similarity
to the unix find command, though ignore ZipFinder as that's dead.
Any views?
Hen
On Wed, 8 Sep
