Re: [email] progress on 1.0 release?

2005-07-04 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 11:11 +1000, Dion Gillard wrote: Is everyone ok with me doing a distribution for 1.0-RC5 and placing it up for public consumption on people.apache.org/~dion ? I'm currently going through http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases/prepare.html and making sure it's all

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Betwixt 0.7 Release Candidate 2 Now Available

2005-07-03 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 14:56 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: I can't see anything missing or incorrect in release contents. Checked maven and ant builds on sun linux jdk 1.4.2_06, 08, 1.5.0_04. Tests failed compile for me under both maven and ant using 1.3.1_14 (sun linux) with error: compiler

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Betwixt 0.7 Release Candidate 2 Now Available

2005-07-03 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 18:35 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: The second candidate for the Betwixt 0.7 release is now available for download (http://people.apache.org/~rdonkin/commons-betwixt/). The documentation can be viewed online (http://people.apache.org/~rdonkin/commons-betwixt/site/).

Re: [math] Release 1.1 RC1 available for review

2005-07-03 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 10:28 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: An initial release candidate for commons-math 1.1 is available for review here: http://people.apache.org/~psteitz/commons-math/1-1-rc1/ Release notes, summarizing the changes from version 1.0, are here:

[email] progress on 1.0 release?

2005-07-03 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi Dion, How are things going with the 1.0 release of email? I see dumbster-1.6 is now on ibiblio/maven, and is compiled with java 1.3. And as far as I can see you've already addressed all of the issues raised during the review of RC4. Is there any other issue holding up RC5 that I could help

Re: [logging] make dependency on servlet api optional

2005-07-02 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 21:29 +0200, J.Pietschmann wrote: Simon Kitching wrote: This is only a *compile-time* dependency. Currently there is a single utility class provided in the standard logging jar which can be used to avoid memory leaks when using commons-logging in servlet

Re: [ANNOUNCE][VFS] commons-vfs 1.0 RC1 available

2005-06-30 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi Mario, On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 21:52 +0200, Mario Ivankovits wrote: Hi! The commons vfs community is happy to announce the availability of commons-vfs 1.0 RC1. Please find the RC at http://people.apache.org/~imario/vfs The site can be reviewed at

Re: [logging] make dependency on servlet api optional

2005-06-30 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 11:50 +0200, Ceki Gülcü wrote: At 12:00 AM 6/30/2005, robert burrell donkin wrote: anyone strongly object to me making the dependency on the servlet api optional (by altering the build script)? There are both advantages and disadvantages to each approach. Making

Re: [ANNOUNCE][VFS] commons-vfs 1.0 RC1 available

2005-06-30 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 21:52 +0200, Mario Ivankovits wrote: Hi! The commons vfs community is happy to announce the availability of commons-vfs 1.0 RC1. Please find the RC at http://people.apache.org/~imario/vfs The site can be reviewed at

Re: [ANNOUNCE][VFS] commons-vfs 1.0 RC1 available

2005-06-30 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 20:02 +0200, Mario Ivankovits wrote: Hi Simon! Thanks for taking the time to check this all!! Perhaps you could post your public GPG/PGP key so the signatures could be checked too? Did you mean the KEYS file within the distribution? Or any other place? Either

Re: [logging] Split Log4JLogger into Log4J12Logger and Log4J13Logger

2005-06-29 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:32 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: The problem is that people won't be referring to it in the normal way, via an import in their code (at least it's *theoretically* possible, but I can't imagine anyone actually subclassing Log4JLogger. IMHO we should have

[logging] unit test refactoring

2005-06-29 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi All, Quite a few of the JCL unit tests need to be run with specific classloader hierarchies set. The current solution is to avoid running the standard junit.textui.TestRunner class and instead run the org.apache.commons.logging.Wrapper class which sets up any custom classpath needed then

Re: [logging] make dependency on servlet api optional

2005-06-29 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 23:00 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: anyone strongly object to me making the dependency on the servlet api optional (by altering the build script)? I would prefer to go the other way and make all of the compile-time dependencies mandatory. Currently the build.xml

Re: [logging] make dependency on servlet api optional

2005-06-29 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 10:02 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: Sorry, please make this: If we make all compile dependencies mandatory then People who want customised versions of commons-logging jar files with only some classes present can then unpack the resulting jar, delete the unwanted files

Re: [logging] Building problem

2005-06-29 Thread Simon Kitching
[aargh - top-posting!] It is true that SVN HEAD has a new dependency on servletapi.jar. But I don't think that's the problem that spikesource are reporting. The log file shown indicates a failure to compile the optional jar. This might have been because: (a) the version# is now included in the

RE: [logging] make dependency on servlet api optional

2005-06-29 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 17:51 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: anyone strongly object to me making the dependency on the servlet api optional I'd object if you DIDN'T. This is only a *compile-time* dependency. Currently there is a single utility class provided in the standard logging jar which

Re: [logging] unit test refactoring

2005-06-29 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 22:31 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 23:53 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: snip What do people think about this? big +1 Should I: * commit this * commit this to a branch for review * rethink because of ... commit it on HEAD

Re: [lang] text.Interpolation, on to 2.2

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 01:38 +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Dumb question, why do we even need a VariableResolver interface ? A String-Object association is a common job for a Map after all. We should be able to build a sophisticated resolver system in [configuration] with a simple

Re: [doc] improvements to release/preparehtml

2005-06-28 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:55 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: i've been cutting a release (the first i've cut for quite a while) so i thought it'd be a good idea to try to improve the release documentation. i came up with some improvements to the preparation document. i've deployed a

[all] licenses compatible with APL2.0

2005-06-27 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, I'm looking at fixing some issues with commons-logging unit tests by adding a couple of classes that enhance junit. In one case this means copying-and-pasting a dozen lines from junit.framework.TestSuite into a local class. JUnit is published under the Common Public License 1.0

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Project commons-logging-step-1 (in module jakarta-commons) failed

2005-06-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 00:20 +0200, Dennis Lundberg wrote: BUILD FAILED /x1/gump/public/workspace/jakarta-commons/logging/build.xml:295: destination directory /x1/gump/public/workspace/jakarta-commons/logging/target/classes does not exist or is not a directory

Re: [logging] Split Log4JLogger into Log4J12Logger and Log4J13Logger

2005-06-26 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 20:56 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: i think that the next release should be a 1.1 release in any case. however, i would prefer retaining Log4JLogger so that it can be properly deprecated. The problem is that people won't be referring to it in the normal way, via an

[RESULT] Brian Stansberry as jakarta-commons-logging committer

2005-06-25 Thread Simon Kitching
The votes to elect Brian Stansberry as a committer for jakarta-commons-logging are as follows: +1 Dion Gillard +1 Phil Steitz +1 Robert Donkin +1 Yoav Shapira +1 Emmanuel Bourg +1 Henri Yandell +1 Simon Kitching Brian is therefore elected (Brian has indicated privately that he is willing

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Project commons-logging (in module jakarta-commons) failed

2005-06-25 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 20:52 +0200, Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Stefan Bodewig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After that split the commons-logging project defintion in Gump into three, one compiling against Log4J HEAD, one agains the 1.2 branch and the third bundling up the jar.

[logging] Re: svn commit: r193079

2005-06-25 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 18:29 +0200, Dennis Lundberg wrote: Here's a patch that also makes the warning messages easier to read. Thanks Dennis; I have made the changes you suggested. In future, could you please try to trim quoted text in reply emails to contain only the necessary information to

Re: maven.compile.source was: [vote] Release Commons Jelly 1.0 based on RC3

2005-06-25 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 21:34 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: Before I roll an RC, I need consensus on how we should be doing this. I see three alternatives, with the PITA level increasing in order: 1. Don't worry, be happy - just set maven.compile.target=1.3 and use maven dist under 1.4 (or 1.5)

Re: [lang] text.Interpolation, on to 2.2

2005-06-24 Thread Simon Kitching
I'm willing to do some work on this. I'll need to see what's in lang at the moment though...at least some of the code came originally from Digester so I feel responsible for knocking it into shape for lang! Cheers, Simon On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 06:34 -0400, Steven Caswell wrote: Though I don't

Re: [io] release?

2005-06-24 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 10:20 +0200, Torsten Curdt wrote: My vote would be to just remove it. There wasn't a huge amount of interest and if I'll be the only community on something, it's much easier for me to have it sitting in osjava. It's always available for the ASF if anyone is ever

Re: [VFS][ALL] Vote again for release 1.0?

2005-06-24 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 10:37 +0200, Mario Ivankovits wrote: Hi! There is one feature left I would like to add to VFS after fixing the webdav stuff (yes Torsten, its your last bugzilla ticket). It looks like he really need it now and so I will satisfy his wish. But then I really will

Re: [VOTE] [email] promote RC4 to 1.0 status

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 22:22 +1000, Dion Gillard wrote: What usually goes in that for 1.0? The changes from the most recent pre-1.0 release (ie distribution available via the official downloads page). Email, of course, has never made a release of any sort. However I would still document any

Re: svn commit: r191838 - /jakarta/commons/proper/email/trunk/project.xml

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -siteAddressjakarta.apache.org/siteAddress +siteAddresscvs.apache.org/siteAddress Just for the future, there was an email discussion a little while ago, and the general consensus (my interpretation anyway) was that

[email] Re: svn commit: r191862

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:50 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified: jakarta/commons/proper/email/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/mail/Email.java URL:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Betwixt 0.7 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 19:57 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: The first release candidate for the 0.7 release of Betwixt is now available here: http://people.apache.org/~rdonkin/commons-betwixt. The Javadocs are available here: http://people.apache.org/~rdonkin/commons-betwixt/site/. This

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Betwixt 0.7 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 08:59 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: One unit test failed with Java 1.3 (debian sarge): Testcase: testIntrospectionTimeTypeWrite(org.apache.commons.betwixt.io.read.TestBindTimeTypeMapping): FAILED (Unequal node names) expected:call but was:latinName

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Betwixt 0.7 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 09:37 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 08:59 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: One unit test failed with Java 1.3 (debian sarge): Testcase: testIntrospectionTimeTypeWrite(org.apache.commons.betwixt.io.read.TestBindTimeTypeMapping): FAILED (Unequal

Re: [io] release?

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 21:08 -0400, Henri Yandell wrote: On 6/22/05, Torsten Curdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm... what about creating a new sandbox project for it then? We could move it there and then prepare the release of commons io? WDYT? My vote would be to just remove it.

Re: svn commit: r190899 - /jakarta/commons/proper/logging/trunk/build.xml

2005-06-23 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 06:22 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: i'm very unhappy with the introduction of the servlet API as a full core dependency. IIRC i stated before that this has a very detrimental effect on dependency management tools. i strongly believe that JCL's core dependencies need

[logging] Split Log4JLogger into Log4J12Logger and Log4J13Logger

2005-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, Currently the Log4JLogger code in svn has this horrible stuff all through it: if (is12) { ... } else { ... } This is to handle the fact that log4j versions 1.2 and 1.3 are expected to be binary incompatible in both directions, ie code compiled against 1.2 won't work against 1.3

Re: [VOTE] [email] promote RC4 to 1.0 status

2005-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
[AARGH - I hate top-posting!!] It certainly seems like email is generally ready for release. I think one more RC and a new VOTE thread would be a good idea, as the vote thread from december last year really can't be continued now :-). Besides there are a few minor things that need fixing: ===

[VOTE] Proposal for new committer: Brian Stansberry

2005-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
the following votes have been posted in reply to the email on pmc: +1 Dion Gillard +1 Phil Steitz +1 Robert Donkin +1 Yoav Shapira +1 Simon Kitching Please add your vote. Regards, Simon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [logging] JCL in webapps disabled in JBoss [WAS] requirements and static binding

2005-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 22:46 -0700, Brian Stansberry wrote: Maybe a little bit good? ;-) With the latest JCL I was able to remove the JBoss filter of JCL and get logkit logging working for both webapp classes and Tomcat's JSPServlet by following the standard steps --

Re: [logging] JCL in webapps disabled in JBoss [WAS] requirements and static binding

2005-06-21 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 21:57 -0700, Brian Stansberry wrote: Since log4j is on the classpath, they'd have to do use commons-logging.properties anyway. Well, I have a patch to propose which will change that :-) Related to the comment you just added to LogFactoryImpl? Yes. I had

[logging] proposal to split Log4JLogger into Log4J12Logger and Log4J13Logger

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, Currently the Log4JLogger class has this kind of thing all through it: if(is12) { getLogger().log(FQCN, (Priority) Level.DEBUG, message, null ); } else { getLogger().log(FQCN, Level.DEBUG, message, null ); } This code is intended to deal with the fact that log4j1.3 is

Re: [logging] JCL in webapps disabled in JBoss [WAS] requirements and static binding

2005-06-20 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi Brian, On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 16:22 -0700, Brian Stansberry wrote: Had a chance to check this out, and the problem is because JBoss/Tomcat uses commons-logging.jar instead of the commons-logging-api.jar used by standalone Tomcat. When a webapp is deployed JBoss also deploys container code

Re: [logging] proposed design for 1.0.5

2005-06-17 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:09 -0700, Brian Stansberry wrote: donkin wrote: But I don't think the weakref stuff does any harm either (as long as there are no bugs in it!). So I'd be -0 to including it, not -1. If the WeakHashtable stuff is going to stay, I'm wondering if it should

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Project commons-logging (in module jakarta-commons) failed

2005-06-17 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 02:53 -0700, Ted Husted wrote: 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-logging has

Re: Board meeting on June 22nd

2005-06-16 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 10:09 -0400, Henri Yandell wrote: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/JakartaBoardReport-June2005 Need subreports for: Transaction probably needs to be added to this list. A Transaction 1.1 release went out in early January. Regards, Simon

[logging] planning for the next release

2005-06-16 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi All, I can't think of much left to do on commons-logging. Perhaps it's time to start planning for a release? I think we should wait for log4j to get a release out the door that supports the TRACE level. Despite debating this at great length, there still isn't a release out that implements

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 34661] - [logging][PATCH] Improvements to LogFactoryImpl

2005-06-15 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 23:31 -0700, Brian Stansberry wrote: Re the InvocationTargetException for LogKitLogger: Does it actually matter whether ExceptionInInitializerError or InvocationTargetException occurs for LogKitLogger? [snip] Depends on how we resolve the issue of whether to ever

[beanutils] stuff for review

2005-06-15 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi All, There are a number of awkward beanutils bugzilla entries that I would like someone to review. I don't wish to push forward on any of these until at least one other pair of eyes has checked my logic and agreed with it. The issues are: * 23815 [setNestedProperty] Patches committed,

[transaction] release 1.1

2005-06-15 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, I notice that although the transaction 1.1 release is out, there is no news item on the jakarta site. I think it would be nice to put one there. See http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/releases/release.html for instructions if you need them. Cheers, Simon

Re: maven.compile.source

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 15:24 +1000, Brett Porter wrote: Firstly, I still believe if you've got sufficient testing, this isn't really necessary, and this discussion is getting a little carried away. The problem is that testing is supposed to be done by the unit tests. But the unit tests won't

Re: [vote] Release Commons Jelly 1.0 based on RC4

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 13:27 +1000, Brett Porter wrote: Hi, There are release candidates here: http://people.apache.org/~brett/commons-jelly-1.0-RCs/ In commons-jelly-1.0-rc4.tar.gz, file bin/jelly has dos line-endings. This means the file cannot be run: output [EMAIL

Re: [site][email] Broken link on Jakarta site.

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 20:37 +0530, Bindul Bhowmik wrote: Now, to my original problem: since brutus is out of action, where do I get nightly builds for commons-email (if it is getting built at all)? http://cvs.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/nightly/ Regards, Simon

Re: [email] Someone on commons-email?

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:24 -0300, Ramiro Pereira de Magalhaes wrote: Well, that's quite bad... :( Isn't anyone with managing powers interested in pushing email towards a release? I can checkout this project and start fixing anything by myself as (if) needed but this way I'll be working

Re: [email] FIXED commons-email tests for nightly builds script

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 01:31 -0300, Ramiro Pereira de Magalhaes wrote: Craig, after having some fight with the commons-email project I discovered the problem that breaks it: you're compiling the project with the javamail_path/lib/mailapi.jar package instead of javamail_path/mail.jar

Re: [email] FIXED commons-email tests for nightly builds script

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:18 +1000, Dion Gillard wrote: I think it's a bit pessimistic to say it's a dead horse. I should have some free time for email later this week Ah .. sorry, Dion. Good to know you're still interested. Regards, Simon

RE: maven.compile.source was: [vote] Release Commons Jelly 1.0 based on RC3

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 22:12 -0400, Hans Gilde wrote: Well, targeting the 1.3 class file definition won't prevent it from using the rt.jar in your 1.5 JDK... thus possible compiling against an API that is in 1.3. In fact, this is not the case and I tried it... but just pointing it out. Just a

RE: maven.compile.source was: [vote] Release Commons Jelly 1.0 based on RC3

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 13:12 +0100, Stephen Colebourne wrote: --- Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An option is to put something like this in the project.properties: maven.junit.fork=true maven.junit.jvm=/path/to/jvm12/bin/java The code then gets compiled with the very best

Re: maven.compile.source

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 13:15 +0100, Stephen Colebourne wrote: --- Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip theorectical example of problem using PrintStream] One real example is StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer) as I said before. The problem is exactly as Simon described, around

Re: [jelly] distribution format

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 09:59 +1000, Brett Porter wrote: I'll also point out I have limited time to work on this now, and starting with JavaOne I'll be away for 3 weeks - so either this is out this week, someone else steps up to finish it, or it waits until August. I'm not in anyway trying to

Re: [jelly] distribution format

2005-06-13 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:12 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: And the lack of bugzilla entries and user/development questions also implies that Jelly is fine as-is. umm .. the lack of Bugzilla entries is probably because Jelly uses Jira :-(. Jira has quite a few bug entries (73). It looks like

Re: [math] 1.1 clirr report, backward compatibility

2005-06-12 Thread Simon Kitching
So looking at possible solutions... The current situation is: interface Foo class Impl implements Foo Is it possible to do this? interface ExtendedFoo implements Foo class Impl implements ExtendedFoo In this way, Foo doesn't change, but new code can pass objects around as ExtendedFoo in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] commons-digester 1.7 released

2005-06-12 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi All, Version 1.7 of commons-digester has now been released. This is a minor bugfix and maintenance release. A few small features have been added. New projects are encouraged to use this release of digester, but there is no urgency for existing projects to upgrade; Digester 1.6 has proven to

[doc] release procedure

2005-06-12 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi All, Having now done a release, I have a couple of suggestions/questions about the release procedure. === The dist directories currently have symbolic links named ..current.. that point to the actual files in the binary and source subdirs. Is there actually any justification for keeping

Re: [doc] release procedure

2005-06-12 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 18:32 -0700, Martin Cooper wrote: On 6/12/05, Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Having now done a release, I have a couple of suggestions/questions about the release procedure. === The dist directories currently have symbolic links named

Re: [math] 1.1 clirr report, backward compatibility

2005-06-12 Thread Simon Kitching
, was third parties implementation broken because of this interface change? No. The Stub provides continued backward compatibility for the thirdparty implementation. -Mark Stephen Colebourne wrote: Simon Kitching wrote: So looking at possible solutions... The current situation

Re: [math] 1.1 clirr report, backward compatibility

2005-06-12 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 14:47 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: Hi Mark, In the example below, I would regard this change as being an incompatible change anyway. Code using the new API isn't compatible with code implementing the old API because an exception can be thrown when invoking a normal

Re: maven.compile.source was: [vote] Release Commons Jelly 1.0 based on RC3

2005-06-12 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 13:08 +1000, Brett Porter wrote: Hi Hans, This is exactly what I meant. Thanks for confirming that it has worked this time on JDK 1.3. The question I'm still uncertain of is whether it is possible that JDK 1.5, with -target 1.3 but it's own rt.jar, would ever

[ jelly] svn commit: r190092 - /jakarta/commons/proper/jelly/trunk/project.properties

2005-06-11 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 07:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- jakarta/commons/proper/jelly/trunk/project.properties (original) +++ jakarta/commons/proper/jelly/trunk/project.properties Sat Jun 11 00:41:11 2005 @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ maven.compile.debug = on maven.compile.optimize = off

Re: [vote] Release Commons Jelly 1.0 based on RC3

2005-06-11 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 10:25 +0100, Stephen Colebourne wrote: Some jar files are build with JDK1.5 (according to the manifest). commons-jelly-1.0.jar/commons-jelly-tags-xml-1.1.jar. Is that a problem if maven.compile.target is set? I wouldn't think so... Another nice to have would be the

Re: [vote] Release Commons Jelly 1.0 based on RC3

2005-06-11 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 18:45 +1000, Brett Porter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, There are release candidates here: http://people.apache.org/~brett/commons-jelly-1.0-RCs/ Hi Brett, Here are some comments..hope they are useful. After unpacking the

Re: [vote] Release Commons Jelly 1.0 based on RC3

2005-06-11 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 18:45 +1000, Brett Porter wrote: The site is not changed, so I have not published a version to my home directory. However, if the release is approved I will go through and change references to release candidates, download links, etc. Ok. Please don't forget to update

Re: [all] [digester] [VOTE] release version 1.7 - REPOST

2005-06-11 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 19:50 -0400, Steven Caswell wrote: Just one question about the jar: The manifest indicates the jar was built with JDK 1.5. Does this present any issues with running against previous Java versions? File project.properties contains this: # generate .class files that can

[VOTE] Digester 1.7 release

2005-06-11 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi All, The vote to release commons-digester 1.7 has passed: +1 Phil Steitz +1 Steven Caswell +1 Simon Kitching I will therefore be posting the official release shortly. Regards, Simon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[all] [digester] [VOTE] release version 1.7 - REPOST

2005-06-10 Thread Simon Kitching
votes so we can get this release out the door. So *please* take a few minutes to check that the right procedures have been followed, then add your +1 vote so the release can be completed. Thanks, Simon On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:19 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: Hi, As we've had two release

Re: [VOTE][betwixt] propose upgrading version number of release from 1.6.1 to 1.7

2005-06-09 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 21:24 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: the latest betwixt code contains a number of (relatively minor) semantic incompatibilities with the last release as well as quite a number of new features. after recent discussions, i think it best to release the code as 1.7

Re: [lang] Preparing for 2.1 release

2005-06-09 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:03 -0400, Steven Caswell wrote: I'm planning to cut the 2.1 release this weekend if there aren't any -1s before then, and I've never done one of these, so I'm wondering if there is any doc anywhere I can look at for steps/guidelines/etc. Failing that, is there

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT][Betwixt] Betwixt Release 0.6.1 RC3 Available

2005-06-09 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 20:08 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 15:08 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 22:35 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: The first public release candidate (RC3) for Betwixt 0.6.1 is now available for download: http

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT][Betwixt] Betwixt Release 0.6.1 RC3 Available

2005-06-09 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 20:29 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:41 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 22:21 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: === Maven reports: I would suggest disabling this report. Firstly, a log of the last 30

Re: [jelly] proposal: taglib/core releases

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Kitching
Umm.. Brent, did you follow the official procedure for creating this release? I don't remember seeing any VOTE thread on this, and it is definitely *not* permitted to perform a release without an official VOTE thread having been passed. There's a whole lot of other stuff that is certainly

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT][Betwixt] Betwixt Release 0.6.1 RC3 Available

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 22:21 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: === Maven reports: I would suggest disabling this report. Firstly, a log of the last 30 days isn't of much use. And secondly, due to the import into SVN of back-dated CVS changes, date-based selection on the apache

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT][Betwixt] Betwixt Release 0.6.1 RC3 Available

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 23:22 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: === other The src distro builds fine with Java1.5 on Linux (debian 3.1). Unfortunately, there are ?? unit test failures when using java 1.3.1: TEST

Re: [jelly] proposal: taglib/core releases

2005-06-08 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 09:09 +1000, Brett Porter wrote: Sorry. I saw square brackets, release and +1's from the jelly developers and saw that as a green light. My mistake. First, I should point out that all stuff below is *just my personal opinion*. The only emails I can find about

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT][Betwixt] Betwixt Release 0.6.1 RC3 Available

2005-06-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 22:35 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: The first public release candidate (RC3) for Betwixt 0.6.1 is now available for download: http://people.apache.org/~rdonkin/commons-betwixt/. Please check and report any problems ASAP. Hi Robert, Here's some stuff re the

[digester] [VOTE] release version 1.7

2005-06-07 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, As we've had two release candidates, and there have been no major issues raised, I would appreciate your votes to approve an official release. Phil Steitz raised a couple of minor points for RC2 that have been addressed; the changes since RC2 are: * removed tabs from unit-test and example

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT][Betwixt] Betwixt Release 0.6.1 RC3 Available

2005-06-07 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 22:35 +0100, robert burrell donkin wrote: The first public release candidate (RC3) for Betwixt 0.6.1 is now available for download: http://people.apache.org/~rdonkin/commons-betwixt/. Please check and report any problems ASAP. I've run clirr to analyse the differences

Re: [digester] Release Candidate 1.7 RC2 ready for review

2005-06-06 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi Phil, Thanks very much for having a look at this. *** Reports from anyone else would still be very welcome*** On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 15:50 -0400, Phil Steitz wrote: * download and unpack the src and bin distributions, and verify that the contents are all as expected Looks good.

Re: [lang] VOTE 2.1 release based on RC8

2005-06-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 19:40 -0400, Steven Caswell wrote: Now that RC8 (http://www.apache.org/~stevencaswell/commons-lang-2.1) has been up for a few days with no issues, I propose it becomes the 2.1 release. +1 - To

[logging] branches/allow-flawed

2005-06-06 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, As you may have seen from the commit email, I have created a branch allow-flawed. This contains an attempt to implement fallback as described in this bugzilla entry: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34661 The code in this branch passes all unit tests, and 100% of the

Re: CVS Changes Emails...

2005-06-03 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 07:11 -0400, James Carman wrote: All, This may be a dumb question, but how do we generate the emails that are sent when someone checks in a change to our CVS repository? I was thinking of maybe instituting something like that at work. Is it pretty easy to set up?

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 34661] - [logging][PATCH] Improvements to LogFactoryImpl

2005-06-02 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 23:12 -0700, Brian Stansberry wrote: snip from: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34661 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-05-31 07:49 --- I still don't understand that bit with the else around the log4j discovery.

Re: [math][all] Mentoring for Google's Summer of Code program

2005-06-02 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi Phil/Ryan, In general this proposal sounds like an excellent idea to me. I expect the mathematics community is the sort that would be willing to form a self-supporting community around a tool once it has shown itself to be useable. So the issues of having developers around to

[digester] Release Candidate 1.7 RC2 ready for review

2005-06-02 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi All, Release Candidate #2 of commons-digester-1.7 is now available at: http://people.apache.org/~skitching/digester-1.7/ It would be greatly appreciated if interested parties would * download and test the jar file with their applications * download and unpack the src and bin

RE: [lang] Release Candidiate 8 available

2005-06-01 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 01:55 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote: Simon: You probably need to copy junit.jar to %ANT_HOME%\lib Yep, that will make things work. But I'm questioning whether it is reasonable for the lang 2.1 build process to require users to do this. What is wrong with the old way of

Re: [lang] Release Candidiate 8 available

2005-06-01 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:38 -0400, Steven Caswell wrote: Commons-lang 2.1 release candidate 8 is available at http://www.apache.org/~stevencaswell/commons-lang-2.1/ Primary change is Gary's working out the oddball build and class loading issue that only seems to happen on Windows XP (SP2)

Re: [logging] LoadTest

2005-05-31 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 17:59 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: The test doesn't set up its own clean classpath?! I thought that was what the AppClassLoader private class was all about - though of course it's hard to tell as there aren't any comments on it. If the unit test doesn't properly set up

[digester] Release Candidate 1.7 RC1 ready for review

2005-05-31 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi All, Release Candidate #1 of commons-digester-1.7 is now available at: http://people.apache.org/~skitching/digester-1.7/ It would be greatly appreciated if interested parties would * download and test the jar file with their applications * download and unpack the src and bin

Re: [Proposal] Commons Filters

2005-05-31 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:09 -0700, Dakota Jack wrote: Something must be missing from this thread. All we got from Simon was this reference to a WebDav project. How that relates to what you are doing is not clear to me, Frank. Simon must have sent something else in addition that you have not

RE: [Proposal] Commons Filters

2005-05-31 Thread Simon Kitching
And +1 on a separate commons for webapp stuff from me too. Having projects in this commons is best done when there are already a fair number of commons committers who would be interested in contributing, or at least keeping an eye on the new project. But there are many developers here (like me)

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