Re: [net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?

2006-01-29 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rory Winston writes: >* You're correct that there is no inherent advantage, at least >functionality-wise, in removing the ORO dependency. I think the major I didn't mean to suggest that the dependency shouldn't be removed. I was just being nitpicky and saying tha

Re: [all] The JDK1.5 issue [was: [net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?]

2006-01-29 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 1/29/06, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to broaden the original [net] thread and ask how is commons > going to handle JDK1.5? Or in the case of [net], is a JDK1.4 branch > worthwhile? > > So far, commons has stuck with JDK 1.2/1.3 pretty much across the board. > This is

[all] The JDK1.5 issue [was: [net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?]

2006-01-29 Thread Stephen Colebourne
I'd like to broaden the original [net] thread and ask how is commons going to handle JDK1.5? Or in the case of [net], is a JDK1.4 branch worthwhile? So far, commons has stuck with JDK 1.2/1.3 pretty much across the board. This is because a) JDK1.4 doesn't give that many benefits over 1.3 b) a

Re: [net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?

2006-01-29 Thread Rory Winston
Daniel Thanks for the comments. A few thoughts: * I didnt realise until you mentioned it that MatchResult was a JDK 1.5+ feature. It seems a bit short-sighted of the Sun engineers concerned not to have included it in 1.4, especially as the rest of java.util.regex seems to mimic ORO/Jakarta Re

Re: [net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?

2006-01-29 Thread Daniel F. Savarese
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rory Winston writes: >I think that this might be a good point to consider introducing a >version of Commons-Net that uses JDK 1.4+ as a baseline. My reasoning is I've long advocated branching to take advantage of JDK 1.4, but I had a more radical agenda. I belie

[net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?

2006-01-29 Thread Jose Juan Montiel
Hi Rory, i have not sufficient experience in Jakarta Commons Net, to decide or even to talk about of this, but i would said a few things about your reasoning... > * FTPS support would not necessitate a separate (JSSE) jar dependency; About dependency, i hope explain well in thread "JSSE and FTPS

Re: [net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?

2006-01-28 Thread Steve Cohen
Right. That is the question we have to answer. I guess I'm okay with it but I'm not quite a +1 yet until I understand how much work is involved. I notice a couple of the Jakarta Commons projects do separate branches: Collections and HttpClient. There may be others, these were just the one

Re: [net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?

2006-01-28 Thread Rory Winston
Steve Agreed that JDK 1.3 (and previous) is still important to support. My question is: is it desirable to put a 1.4+ version on HEAD and relegate JDK 1.3 to a separate branch, or do we not want to get into separate branch maintenance? R Steve Cohen wrote: Rory Winston wrote: Hi I have

Re: [net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?

2006-01-28 Thread Steve Cohen
Rory Winston wrote: Hi I have been following the email threads re: JSSE and FTPS functionality. I think that this might be a good point to consider introducing a version of Commons-Net that uses JDK 1.4+ as a baseline. My reasoning is as follows: * We could remove the (oro) jar dependency;

[net] JDK 1.4+ Branch?

2006-01-28 Thread Rory Winston
Hi I have been following the email threads re: JSSE and FTPS functionality. I think that this might be a good point to consider introducing a version of Commons-Net that uses JDK 1.4+ as a baseline. My reasoning is as follows: * We could remove the (oro) jar dependency; * FTPS support would