Oh wait, I looked into it more. That might be usable actually. Plus it could be useful for diving directly into the network code of networked file systems to implement them more efficiently. I'm not sure how well isolated those classes are, so we might need to just take them and do some renaming.
On 17 March 2017 at 12:34, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm actually learning a little bit about ByteBuf from Netty this > afternoon. I don't know enough about the implementation to say. The thing > is, the Channel APIs all use ByteBuffer. I'm not sure how ByteBufs are > converted into ByteBuffers yet. > > On 17 March 2017 at 12:19, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'll be happy to help with PMC related tasks. >> >> Gary >> >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Commons VFS is still in Subversion. We're going to need a new Git repo >> > regardless. I can do an import for that repo like I did for Pool, but I >> > need PMC help to complete the transition. >> > >> > Also, I was thinking about which Java version to support. Java 7 is >> > obviously the minimum due to the API being added there, and it doesn't >> look >> > like there was anything new added in Java 8 for NIO (other than an >> improved >> > SelectorProvider implementation on Solaris, but that's not a public >> API). I >> > don't see any additions in Java 9, either. Now I prefer using Java 8 for >> > development, but as there appears to be no specific reason to use Java 8 >> > for this version, we could really go either way. Using Java 7 makes more >> > sense for creating FileSystemProvider implementations, though depending >> on >> > any additional APIs added, I don't know if it'll turn out that >> supporting >> > Java 8 APIs will be all that useful. >> > >> > On 16 March 2017 at 02:39, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: >> > >> > > Why not a new branch in the existing repo? >> > > >> > > Benedikt >> > > >> > > Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> schrieb am Do. 16. März >> 2017 um >> > > 06:54: >> > > >> > > > Yes, and here we are with Java 9 at our doorstep. Time flies. >> > > > >> > > > I would recommend that you create a commons-vfs3 git repo for this >> as >> > you >> > > > will only be able to borrow some code. A lot will be different. >> > > > >> > > > Ralph >> > > > >> > > > > On Mar 15, 2017, at 8:12 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > > > > >> > > > > Ralph has mentioned in the past an idea about rewriting >> commons-vfs >> > > using >> > > > > java.nio.file from Java 7. I was playing with this API today >> > attempting >> > > > to >> > > > > abstract some S3 file operations using < >> > > > > https://github.com/Upplication/Amazon-S3-FileSystem-NIO2> and >> found >> > > that >> > > > > the API is pretty nice. OpenJDK already contains implementations >> for >> > > the >> > > > > normal file system and zip files if I recall correctly (so >> probably >> > > also >> > > > > jar files). >> > > > > >> > > > > Anyways, if we were to go forward with starting work on this, >> should >> > we >> > > > > just make a commons-vfs3 branch in the vfs repo? Or does this >> belong >> > in >> > > > the >> > > > > sandbox? >> > > > > >> > > > > -- >> > > > > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ >> --------- >> > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617290459/ref=as_li_tl? >> ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1617290459&link >> Code=as2&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=cadb800f39946ec62ea2b1af9fe6a2b8> >> >> <http:////ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l= >> am2&o=1&a=1617290459> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition >> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182021/ref=as_li_tl? >> ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935182021&link >> Code=as2&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=31ecd1f6b6d1eaf8886ac902a24de418%22> >> >> <http:////ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l= >> am2&o=1&a=1935182021> >> Spring Batch in Action >> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182951/ref=as_li_tl? >> ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1935182951&link >> Code=%7B%7BlinkCode%7D%7D&tag=garygregory-20&linkId=%7B%7Bli >> nk_id%7D%7D%22%3ESpring+Batch+in+Action> >> <http:////ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=garygregory-20&l= >> am2&o=1&a=1935182951> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
