Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-09 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 09:32 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: snip So... we let Robert/Stephen/others finish up with reflect in lang while copying across modifications that occur to those areas in beanutils... unfortunately, the modifications and fixes can't be copied across. the public

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 06:51 PM, Costin Manolache wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from:Jeff Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rodney Waldhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Costin If duplication is a concern - then just use Costin beanutils ( however duplication is explicitely

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 06:53 PM, Costin Manolache wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: the guidelines have an inbuilt mechanism whereby components may - if they wish - prevent a new existing commons committer joining. that is, they can veto the addition of the committers name to the

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 06:59 AM, Costin Manolache wrote: Craig R. McClanahan wrote: It doesn't quite matter. There are people using it ( digester, other projects), it was released - we have to live with it. We may learn a lesson about APIs and use it next time, but as long as it

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Costin Manolache wrote: robert burrell donkin wrote: what we have is clear duplication. twice the support and twice the maintenance. Nobody asks you to support 2 versions. There is nothing wrong with duplication ( at least in commons ). You can just maintain and

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-07 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 08:57 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... BTW. I agree that the [lang] charter would need to be reworked to clarify the inclusion of 'reflection'. This proposal is to create a package of Java utility classes for the

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, robert burrell donkin wrote: On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 08:57 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: java.lang.reflect :) The proposal, nice and umbrella-like as it is, refers to anything that provides Utils for the java.lang.reflect classes. yep. the reflection classes are

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-07 Thread Henri Yandell
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Costin Manolache wrote: Craig R. McClanahan wrote: I don't know. this kind of stuff. If the [reflect] package will have the same features and better API - then it may be better to mark beanutils as stable/closed and migrate modeler, digester, etc directly to

RE: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-06 Thread scolebourne
from:Jeff Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rodney Waldhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Costin If duplication is a concern - then just use Costin beanutils ( however duplication is explicitely Costin allowed in commons AFAIK). Robert i've been convinced that beanutils is Robert not

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-06 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 04:27 PM, Rodney Waldhoff wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, robert burrell donkin wrote: On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 08:39 PM, Morgan Delagrange wrote: --- robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip rodney hasn't been a regular contributor to

RE: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-06 Thread Rodney Waldhoff
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Originally [reflect] was proposed for low-level reflection helpers. However this got changed to [lang] because: Not proposed, suggested, both in the [reflect] and [lang] case. - the package would consist of only 4 classes What's the threshold

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-06 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 04:27 PM, Rodney Waldhoff wrote: snip And I'm convinced that lang isn't the right place either. Let's split the difference and propose commons-reflect or commons-reflection or whatever, and end this thread. +1 but i don't have the energy to force this through.

RE: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-06 Thread Costin Manolache
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from:Jeff Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Rodney Waldhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Costin If duplication is a concern - then just use Costin beanutils ( however duplication is explicitely Costin allowed in commons AFAIK). Robert i've been convinced that

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-06 Thread Costin Manolache
robert burrell donkin wrote: the guidelines have an inbuilt mechanism whereby components may - if they wish - prevent a new existing commons committer joining. that is, they can veto the addition of the committers name to the list of developers for the component. With a valid technical

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-06 Thread Morgan Delagrange
--- robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ the guidelines have an inbuilt mechanism whereby components may - if they wish - prevent a new existing commons committer joining. that is, they can veto the addition of the committers name to the list of developers for the

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-06 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Costin Manolache wrote: Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 07:41:08 -0800 From: Costin Manolache [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils robert burrell

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-06 Thread Costin Manolache
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: It doesn't quite matter. There are people using it ( digester, other projects), it was released - we have to live with it. We may learn a lesson about APIs and use it next time, but as long as it does what it is supposed to do and works - you can't remove it. I

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils (was: Re: [beanutils] ConstructorUtils in beanutils: a bad idea)

2002-12-05 Thread Morgan Delagrange
--- robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 07:20 PM, Morgan Delagrange wrote: So it seems like the point is not ConstructorUtils in beanutils: a bad idea, but rather Reflection classes in beanutils: a bad idea. It's inappropriate to -1

Re: [beanutils] moving reflection classes out of beanutils

2002-12-05 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 08:39 PM, Morgan Delagrange wrote: --- robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip rodney hasn't been a regular contributor to beanutils either in terms of code or on the mailing lists. if he couldn't even be bothered to ask before making himself a