On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 20:09 -0500, James Carman wrote:
> I would agree that merging the functors from collections into commons
> functor would not work (Transformer vs. UnaryFunction for example). My only
> point would be that if we're trying to create a general-purpose functor
> library (what com
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From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [collections] [functor] Split functors from collections
If you'd like to compare functor sandbox and collections-functor I think
you'll
or example).
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From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Does it actually need a deprecation release? The new comp
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From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Does it actually need a deprecation release? The new component will have
Does it actually need a deprecation release? The new component will have
the same classes in the same packages. The only difference is that users
will need to pickup another jar.
In fact, since this is the case, deprecation will actually cause
confusion to users. Depending on which is first in
+1 to the split.
Proposal A would seem to make the most sense.
I'd like to see a 'deprecation release' of collections with the
functor code marked as deprecated so that users know this is being
moved.
This would give be a big heads up about the new component and that
their build process should c
What about the existing Commons Functor library? Collections should really
use those as opposed to defining its own. I realize that Commons Functor
came about after Collections, but if we're going to start splitting stuff
out, maybe we should revive functor for this stuff and maybe start migratin
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 21:52 +, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> Commons collections is a large jar file. Some users have issue with
> that. Those users tend to complain most about the functor part, which is
> an area of more religious feeling than the rest of collections.
>
> I want to float the
