Re: [VOTE] Release JXPath 1.3 based on RC2

2008-06-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Seb. I changed the m1 build to use JUnit 3.8.1 and add the new dependency for mockrruner:

[Commons Wiki] Update of CommonsPeople by MattBenson

2008-06-12 Thread Apache Wiki
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[Commons Wiki] Trivial Update of CreatingReleases by MattBenson

2008-06-12 Thread Apache Wiki
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RC attempts

2008-06-12 Thread Matt Benson
Have I mentioned I HATE Maven? I don't understand how something that looks innocuous like building an RC can go out and update the production website, which, AFAICT, isn't backed up anywhere, so I guess I'll be trying to regen it from the previous release. Can anyone tell me simply exactly what

Re: RC attempts

2008-06-12 Thread Matt Benson
--- James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, imagining the profanity makes this message much more enjoyable! :) I don't know about that, but I know that writing it without felt awfully stifling. You need to use the rc profile when building a release candidate. The default

Re: RC attempts

2008-06-12 Thread Matt Benson
Update: Luckily pquerna was available on #asfinfra and retrieved the production site from www before it got synched with the new content. I couldn't get JXPATH_1_2 to build the Maven 1 site... though I did find an email trail where jcarman had had the same problem before: Could not find the

Re: RC attempts

2008-06-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Update: Luckily pquerna was available on #asfinfra and retrieved the production site from www before it got synched with the new content. I couldn't get JXPATH_1_2 to build the Maven 1 site... though I did find an email

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Ralph Goers
I haven't been following this list all that long so I'm interested in knowing why you want the package names changed. (I apologize in advance to those who have already heard this before). BTW - I'm +1 on Java 5. Not only for lang but for a bunch of commons projects. James Carman wrote: On

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Carman schrieb: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a JIRA item for using generics, and another for varargs. Additionally it'd probably be nice to use generics-level reflection in the oacl.reflect package. Thoughts on [lang] 3.0 moving to

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Tom Schindl
I can feel your pain. Thank god I'm using OSGi and can declare my dependencies explicitly :-) I'm also +1 for changing the package name because one can not assume that everybody is using Felix, Equinox or other OSGi-Envs. Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: James Carman schrieb: On Wed, Jun

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Schindl schrieb: I can feel your pain. Thank god I'm using OSGi and can declare my dependencies explicitly :-) Yep. Well, it works for those libs that are just internal implementation details. I'm not an OSGi expert, but if any exported class contains a public or protected method that has

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Tom Schindl
I think we should ask the felix people what can be solved with OSGi and what can not. Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Tom Schindl schrieb: I can feel your pain. Thank god I'm using OSGi and can declare my dependencies explicitly :-) Yep. Well, it works for those libs that are just internal

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Hi! +1 on generics +99 on package-name change. +100 The ASM project (org.objectweb.asm) changes their API significantly with major releases, but do not change the package name. And it causes major pain. For example, the following libs all require specific versions of ASM: * hibernate *

[g...@vmgump]: Project commons-vfs (in module apache-commons) failed

2008-06-12 Thread commons-vfs development
To whom it may engage... This is an automated request, but not an unsolicited one. For more information please visit http://gump.apache.org/nagged.html, and/or contact the folk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project commons-vfs has an issue affecting its community integration. This issue affects

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:43 AM, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a JIRA item for using generics, and another for varargs. Additionally it'd probably be nice to use generics-level reflection in the

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread James Carman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Perhaps its a moot point in Lang's case since I guess the deprecated enum package has to be removed to move to a minimum of JDK 1.5. Do you mean that the removal of the enums would mean that we have to change

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread James Carman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Ralph Goers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been following this list all that long so I'm interested in knowing why you want the package names changed. (I apologize in advance to those who have already heard this before). Sure. We should probably have a

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:19 PM, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Perhaps its a moot point in Lang's case since I guess the deprecated enum package has to be removed to move to a minimum of JDK 1.5. Do

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread James Carman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would agree that for Lang that *if* the API change breaks compatibility, then a package name change would be appropriate - but I think its a mistake in general to start making decisions along the lines JDK

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread James Carman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean that the removal of the enums would mean that we have to change package names? Would class/interface removals necessitate a package name change? I haven't really thought that through. Perhaps not,

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread sebb
On 12/06/2008, James Carman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean that the removal of the enums would mean that we have to change package names? Would class/interface removals necessitate a package name

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread James Carman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:05 AM, sebb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Removal of a *public* interface/method/class means that the API is not compatible, as it is not possible to replace the jar without breaking classes that use these items. I guess I was thinking of the situation where you'd have

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
sebb a écrit : BTW, perhaps Commons should have a similar naming convention for packages that need to contain public methods, but which are only intended to be used in Commons libraries. Or a big DO NOT USE THIS CLASS, RESERVED FOR INTERNAL USE in the Javadoc ? Emmanuel Bourg

RE: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Jörg Schaible
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would agree that for Lang that *if* the API change breaks compatibility, then a package name change would be appropriate - but I think its a mistake in general to start making decisions

Re: [math] Improving numerics in OLSMultipleLinearRegression

2008-06-12 Thread Mauro Talevi
Phil Steitz wrote: Yes, and I would distinguish performance optimization from numerical accuracy. From my perspective, we can release a .0 with room for performance improvement, but at least decent numerics are required. I agree that decent numerics are required. I'm still rather

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emmanuel Bourg schrieb: sebb a écrit : BTW, perhaps Commons should have a similar naming convention for packages that need to contain public methods, but which are only intended to be used in Commons libraries. Or a big DO NOT USE THIS CLASS, RESERVED FOR INTERNAL USE in the Javadoc ? In

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Carman schrieb: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:05 AM, sebb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Removal of a *public* interface/method/class means that the API is not compatible, as it is not possible to replace the jar without breaking classes that use these items. I guess I was thinking

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Tom Schindl
Well the whole commons stack now has support for OSGi and OSGi provides a mechanism to not export a package so I'd say one should use the internal package (e.g. org.apache.commons.lang.internal) for all classes that have to be public but are not part of the public API. This is better than

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Ralph Goers
James Carman wrote: Perhaps we need to come up with a standardized versioning strategy for Commons projects, then. A simple rule might be that if you're breaking compatibility, you have to jump major versions and change your package names (I would argue that whenever we jump version numbers,

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread James Carman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Ralph Goers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This confuses me. Doesn't the fact that since the code will no longer run on a pre-1.5 JDK mean that compatibility is broken, even if not a single line of code changes? (Yes - I know that we technically only release source

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread Ralph Goers
James Carman wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Ralph Goers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This confuses me. Doesn't the fact that since the code will no longer run on a pre-1.5 JDK mean that compatibility is broken, even if not a single line of code changes? (Yes - I know that we

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread James Carman
Yes, of course! :) But, who does that anymore? ;) I'm kidding of course. I know that some vendors only support JDK 1.4 currently. On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Ralph Goers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Carman wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Ralph Goers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lang] Java 5

2008-06-12 Thread simon.kitch...@chello.at
Ralph Goers schrieb: James Carman wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Ralph Goers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This confuses me. Doesn't the fact that since the code will no longer run on a pre-1.5 JDK mean that compatibility is broken, even if not a single line of code changes?

Re: [VOTE] Release JXPath 1.3 based on RC2

2008-06-12 Thread Matt Benson
--- Niall Pemberton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Matt Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Seb. I changed the m1 build to use JUnit 3.8.1 and add the new dependency for mockrruner: Niall, I apologize for having failed to express my appreciation of this