[bcel] Backwards Incompatible Change to Visitor

2011-08-16 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Hi, with svn revision 1158060 the bcel.generic.Visitor interface has become package private, breaking the Gump builds of Xalan XSLTC, commons-javaflow and likely other downstream code. Has this change been intentional? Stefan -

[Vote] Release Commons VFS 2.0

2011-08-16 Thread Ralph Goers
This is a vote to release Apache Commons VFS 2.0. Changes made since the last candidate: * Fixed the manifest error that was causing the build to fail. * Changed the copyright date in the Notice file from 2010 to 2011. * Removed the references to javamail from the Notice file. * Removed all the

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread Gary Gregory
On Aug 16, 2011, at 23:47, sebb wrote: > On 17 August 2011 04:30, Gary Gregory wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:14 PM, sebb wrote: > > ... > >> FYI: >> >> What would need to be reversed out of trunk for a 1.6 binary compatible with >> 1.5 is: >> >> [image: Error]Method 'public StringEncoder

Re: [compress] close() and archives/streams in an invalid state

2011-08-16 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2011-08-17, sebb wrote: > On 17 August 2011 03:42, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> On 2011-08-15, sebb wrote: >>> For input, there might be a use case for leaving the stream open, in >>> case some kind of recovery is possible. >>> It would be useful to have a way of determining the input file point

Re: svn commit: r1158504 - /commons/trunks-proper/

2011-08-16 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2011-08-17, wrote: > Propchange: commons/trunks-proper/ > -- > --- svn:externals (original) > +++ svn:externals Wed Aug 17 04:25:55 2011 > @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ attributes https://svn.apache.org/repos/ > bcel https://svn.ap

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread sebb
On 17 August 2011 04:30, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:14 PM, sebb wrote: ... > FYI: > > What would need to be reversed out of trunk for a 1.6 binary compatible with > 1.5 is: > > [image: Error]Method 'public StringEncoderComparator()' has been removed > org.apache.commons.co

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread Gary Gregory
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:14 PM, sebb wrote: > On 17 August 2011 01:49, Gary Gregory wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2011, at 19:40, sebb wrote: > > > >> On 17 August 2011 00:20, Gary Gregory wrote: > >>> On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:01, sebb wrote: > >>> > On 16 August 2011 22:53, Gary Gregory wrote:

Re: [compress] close() and archives/streams in an invalid state

2011-08-16 Thread sebb
On 17 August 2011 03:42, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2011-08-15, sebb wrote: > >> On 15 August 2011 09:56, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >>> Hi, > >>> while working on the Zip64 stuff I deliberately created some invalid >>> archives to test I get the expected exceptions.  While doing so I >>> realized I c

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread sebb
On 17 August 2011 01:49, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Aug 16, 2011, at 19:40, sebb wrote: > >> On 17 August 2011 00:20, Gary Gregory wrote: >>> On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:01, sebb wrote: >>> On 16 August 2011 22:53, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Julius Davies > w

Re: [compress] close() and archives/streams in an invalid state

2011-08-16 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2011-08-15, sebb wrote: > On 15 August 2011 09:56, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> Hi, >> while working on the Zip64 stuff I deliberately created some invalid >> archives to test I get the expected exceptions.  While doing so I >> realized I couldn't close the underlying stream because >> ZipArchive

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread Gary Gregory
On Aug 16, 2011, at 19:40, sebb wrote: > On 17 August 2011 00:20, Gary Gregory wrote: >> On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:01, sebb wrote: >> >>> On 16 August 2011 22:53, Gary Gregory wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Julius Davies wrote: >> Please see the recent discussion on a

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread sebb
On 17 August 2011 00:20, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:01, sebb wrote: > >> On 16 August 2011 22:53, Gary Gregory wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Julius Davies >>> wrote: >>> > Please see the recent discussion on adding generics to [codec] where I > propose "

[VOTE][RESULT] Accept BSF as a Commons component

2011-08-16 Thread sebb
The 72 hours has elapsed. Voting was as follows: +1, PMC member (all both sub-votes) = Matt Benson Henri Yandell Stefan Bodewig Luc Maisonobe Christian Grobmeier Simone Tripodi Gary Gregory Oliver Heger James Carman Daniel F. Savarese Sebastian Bazley There were no other votes, so th

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread Gary Gregory
On Aug 16, 2011, at 18:01, sebb wrote: > On 16 August 2011 22:53, Gary Gregory wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Julius Davies wrote: >> Please see the recent discussion on adding generics to [codec] where I propose " encode()" Gary >>> >>> Hi, Gary!!! >>> >>> I

Re: [VOTE] Accept BSF as a Commons component

2011-08-16 Thread sebb
On 13 August 2011 01:13, sebb wrote: > BSF [1] needs to move out of Jakarta. > > It's not really big enough to warrant its own TLP. > > IMO Commons would be a good alternative home for BSF. > > Can we please vote to: > > 1. Accept BSF as a Commons Component > > 2. Offer Commons karma to BSF develo

[GUMP@vmgump]: Project commons-javaflow (in module commons-sandbox) failed

2011-08-16 Thread Gump
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Re: [configuration] Steps towards next release

2011-08-16 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 16/08/2011 22:27, Oliver Heger a écrit : Aren't we free to decide how to represent data structures in a configuration? I mean, the dot keys used by XMLConfiguration is also just a convention. We could transform a plist file to a XML-friendly structure and store it in a hierarchical configurat

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread sebb
On 16 August 2011 22:53, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Julius Davies wrote: > >> > Please see the recent discussion on adding generics to [codec] where I >> > propose " encode()" >> > >> > Gary >> > >> >> Hi, Gary!!! >> >> I thought of replying to that thread, but I though

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread Gary Gregory
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Julius Davies wrote: > > Please see the recent discussion on adding generics to [codec] where I > > propose " encode()" > > > > Gary > > > > Hi, Gary!!! > > I thought of replying to that thread, but I thought it's kinda rude to > hijack a thread like that. > > What

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread sebb
On 16 August 2011 22:23, Julius Davies wrote: >> Please see the recent discussion on adding generics to [codec] where I >> propose " encode()" >> >> Gary >> > > Hi, Gary!!! > > I thought of replying to that thread, but I thought it's kinda rude to > hijack a thread like that. > > What would be the

Re: [chain] Apache Chain v2 Proof of Concept

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Benedict
I misunderstood CHAIN-53 then. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Elijah Zupancic wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I haven't heard any discussion about a pending refactor to chain in > the last month (when I proposed the patch). Could you tell me/us more > about any plans for a major refactoring? > > Thanks,

Re: [chain] Apache Chain v2 Proof of Concept

2011-08-16 Thread Elijah Zupancic
Hi Paul, I haven't heard any discussion about a pending refactor to chain in the last month (when I proposed the patch). Could you tell me/us more about any plans for a major refactoring? Thanks, -Elijah On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Paul Benedict wrote: > I may have missed the discussion...

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread Julius Davies
> Please see the recent discussion on adding generics to [codec] where I > propose " encode()" > > Gary > Hi, Gary!!! I thought of replying to that thread, but I thought it's kinda rude to hijack a thread like that. What would be the pros/cons of just typing "svn remove Encoder.java" and "svn re

Re: [Math] "iterator" and "sparseIterator" in "RealVector" hierarchy

2011-08-16 Thread Ted Dunning
Here is an example from the perspective of somebody adding a new kind of matrix. Take the two kinds of matrix as RandomTrinaryMatrix(rows, columns, p) that has elements that are -1, 0 or 1. 1 and -1 have equal probabilities of p/2. The value of p should be in [0,1]. It would be very nice if the

Re: [Math] "iterator" and "sparseIterator" in "RealVector" hierarchy

2011-08-16 Thread Phil Steitz
On 8/16/11 4:46 AM, Gilles Sadowski wrote: > Hi. > >> I understood what he was suggesting. I still disagree. Dynamic dispatch >> and non-lattice typing structure is still required to make this all work. >> Java doesn't really do that. Pretending that what Java does is sufficient >> is hammer-lo

Re: [configuration] Steps towards next release

2011-08-16 Thread ralph.goers @dslextreme.com
http://wiki.apache.org/commons/CreatingReleases for most of the information as I am using the maven release plugin. But I'm also referring to http://commons.apache.org/releases/index.html to try to make sure nothing is missed. This process has been a bit painful for me as most commons projects aren

Re: [chain] Apache Chain v2 Proof of Concept

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Benedict
I may have missed the discussion... but are we releasing a Java 5 genericized version first before major refactoring? On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Elijah Zupancic wrote: > Hi Simo, > > Yes, the patch is binary compatible with the old chain with one exception: > > org.apache.commons.chain.web.

Re: [codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread Gary Gregory
Hi Julius! I am not a fan of these interfaces because they are not typed, "Object encode(Object)" is too vague now that Generics have been an option for years. The interfaces are a good idea if you want to process the same data with similar but different codecs and use the same code. So there is

Re: [chain] Apache Chain v2 Proof of Concept

2011-08-16 Thread Elijah Zupancic
Hi Simo, Yes, the patch is binary compatible with the old chain with one exception: org.apache.commons.chain.web.servlet.ServletHeaderValuesMap on line 97. Previously the API was returning Set> when by all indications it actually should have been returning Set>. I believe that I fixed a previousl

Re: [configuration] Steps towards next release

2011-08-16 Thread Oliver Heger
Am 16.08.2011 10:40, schrieb Ralph Goers: On Aug 15, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Oliver Heger wrote: I would release 1.7 without vfs 2.0, we can still release 1.8 later when vfs is ready. Probably a question of time. If the vfs 2.0 release is a matter of some days or weeks, this is no problem. The r

Re: [configuration] Steps towards next release

2011-08-16 Thread Oliver Heger
Am 16.08.2011 10:06, schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: Le 15/08/2011 21:39, Oliver Heger a écrit : To be honest, I think the branch is a mess. Maybe [configuration] should follow the road other components have gone before: make the APIs ready for Java 5+, but do only limited refactoring. Ideally, this c

[codec] Encoder / Decoder interface

2011-08-16 Thread Julius Davies
Hi, What do people think of the Encoder / Decoder interface in commons-codec? Do people use it? I know in my own usage patterns of commons-codec, I always go straight for the concrete class that I want, and I never make use of the Encoder / Decoder interface. I'm in grad school right now, and

Re: [Math] "iterator" and "sparseIterator" in "RealVector" hierarchy

2011-08-16 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. > I understood what he was suggesting. I still disagree. Dynamic dispatch > and non-lattice typing structure is still required to make this all work. > Java doesn't really do that. Pretending that what Java does is sufficient > is hammer-looking-for-a-nail, not solving the problems at hand

[GUMP@vmgump]: Project commons-proxy-test (in module apache-commons) failed

2011-08-16 Thread Gump
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[GUMP@vmgump]: Project commons-javaflow (in module commons-sandbox) failed

2011-08-16 Thread Gump
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[vfs] Accessing Excel files and sheets with VFS

2011-08-16 Thread Rainer Klute
Hi all, I am considering to use resp. extend Apache Commons VFS by a component accessing Excel files (via Apache POI). The Excel file as such would be a "folder", the sheets contained in it are "files". The result would be commited to the VFS project. However, before starting, I have to clarify t

Re: [vote] Graduate OGNL into Commons

2011-08-16 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Le 15/08/2011 15:51, Christian Grobmeier a écrit : OGNL [1] has checked off all status items in the incubator. Most of the OGNL developers are already commons developers and the risk of failure is pretty small, even without having made a release. As the Commons project is already very experience

Re: [chain] Apache Chain v2 Proof of Concept

2011-08-16 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi again Elijah, as a side note, since you already submitted the ICLA - and I hope you are interested on continuing to submit contributions - I suggest you to start reading the Apache Committers guide[1] and how the ASF works doc[2] to get more familiar with the Apache way... hopefully you will bec

Re: [chain] Apache Chain v2 Proof of Concept

2011-08-16 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi Elijah, looking at the patch, it seems that v2.0 is binary compatible to old chain, right? I mean, if in a my hypothetical application I would upgrade to v2 (generics a part) old code should continue working, right? TIA, and count also on me! All the best, have a nice day! Simo http://people.ap

Re: [vote] Graduate OGNL into Commons

2011-08-16 Thread Simone Tripodi
+1 YAY http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote: > (OGNL committer) +1 > > 2011/8/15 Christian Grobmeier : >> OGNL [1] has checked off all status items in the incubator. >> >> Most of the OGNL developers are already

Re: [configuration] Steps towards next release

2011-08-16 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 15, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Oliver Heger wrote: >> I would release 1.7 without vfs 2.0, we can still release 1.8 later when >> vfs is ready. > > Probably a question of time. If the vfs 2.0 release is a matter of some days > or weeks, this is no problem. The release preparations for [configura

Re: [configuration] Steps towards next release

2011-08-16 Thread Ralph Goers
On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:16 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 15/08/2011 23:02, Ralph Goers a écrit : >> I don't know. I think it really needs a refactoring. We always said that >> all configurations should be based on HierarchicalConfiguration but that >> still hasn't happened. Attribute splittin

Re: [configuration] Steps towards next release

2011-08-16 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 15/08/2011 23:02, Ralph Goers a écrit : I don't know. I think it really needs a refactoring. We always said that all configurations should be based on HierarchicalConfiguration but that still hasn't happened. Attribute splitting and delimiter parsing have been a pain. I think it would be

Re: [configuration] Steps towards next release

2011-08-16 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 15/08/2011 21:39, Oliver Heger a écrit : To be honest, I think the branch is a mess. Maybe [configuration] should follow the road other components have gone before: make the APIs ready for Java 5+, but do only limited refactoring. Ideally, this could even be done in a binary compatible way.