Re: [VOTE] Rob Oxspring as commons-sandbox commiter

2003-10-18 Thread bob mcwhirter
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Issue tracking (was Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 20787] - Jelly project.xml specifies dependencies that are not in Ibiblio repository)

2003-09-03 Thread bob mcwhirter
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Re: [jelly/jexl] any outstanding patches?

2003-06-20 Thread bob mcwhirter
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Peter Royal wrote: If anyone has any outstanding patches for jelly or jexl, can you please place them in bugzilla? I'll go through them all in the next week and apply ones that are appropriate. Jira? http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/BrowseProject.jspa?id=10012

[APPROVED] Re: [VOTE] [committer] Peter Royal commons committer

2003-06-19 Thread bob mcwhirter
Here's the tally I have: +1 for: bob mcwhirter kevin ross jason van zyl morgan delagrange paul hammant (non-binding?) tim o'brien (non-binding?) -1 (against): none 0 (active abstain): none So, at least 4 binding +1s

Re: [jelly] Priority of BugFixing

2003-03-20 Thread bob mcwhirter
I would like to know which priority bug fixing has in Jelly. There are at least three bug reports which remain uncommented since two weeks ago. I mention this because I saw editions of new features in Jelly. That's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. For us it is very important that

Re: [jelly] Scope revisited

2003-03-13 Thread bob mcwhirter
2. Have/keep the scope listeners and events? I personally see Scope as a way to keep me from having to keep writing subclasses of JellyContext when I want the context to be backed by my own data structure. Talking with Strachan I think we're pondering context.setDefaultScope( myScope );

Re: [VOTE] Nominate Alex Chaffee as Commons committer

2003-03-11 Thread bob mcwhirter
+1 -bob On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Stephen Colebourne wrote: I hereby nominate Alex Chaffee as a commons committer. He is a Tomcat committer at present. He currently wants to assist with the development of [lang] and has had a history with supporting library code with his own utilities

Re: [jexl] div

2003-03-07 Thread bob mcwhirter
Jexl seems to implement 'div' as simple division, instead of the pair with 'mod'. I'd like to correct it. Was this a design though, for 'div' to be divison, and not the typical div operator? -bob It's supposed to be /. There is supposed to be a pairing of / and div, % and mod

[jelly] [jexl] ${in} ?

2003-03-06 Thread bob mcwhirter
Geir, Strachan-- This is probably in the same boat as the 'size' lexing issue, but I'm finding impossible to use a variable named ${in}. I can't rename the variable, as I'm using it in a define:tag to define a tag that has an @in attribute. I'm going to commit a work-around to jelly unless you

[jexl] div

2003-03-06 Thread bob mcwhirter
Howdy-- Jexl seems to implement 'div' as simple division, instead of the pair with 'mod'. I'd like to correct it. Was this a design though, for 'div' to be divison, and not the typical div operator? -bob - To

Re: Messenger - worst documentation

2003-03-05 Thread bob mcwhirter
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Re: [digester] site generated via Maven b8

2003-02-27 Thread bob mcwhirter
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Re: [logging] To depend or not to depend?

2003-02-08 Thread bob mcwhirter
as [current-loggers-name] is not exposed by Log. Would it be acceptable to add a getName() or something similar to the Log interface and the implementations? That way, we can fully implement the avalon-framework Logger contract on top of commons-logging. +1. Seems reasonable to me. I

Re: [jexl] I assume that the build.xml came from maven?

2003-02-07 Thread bob mcwhirter
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[jelly] JellyTagException vs JellyException

2003-01-29 Thread bob mcwhirter
Howdy-- Hand-migrating werkflow since I need to learn the new API and also since there's 3 werkflow codelines, and I'm not certain right off hand which one Morgan sent patches for. :) Anyhow, found this annoyance: public void doTag(XMLOutput out) throws JellyTagException { try {

Re: [jelly] [PATCH] StaticTagScript and define taglib

2003-01-27 Thread bob mcwhirter
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Re: [Grant] Ant problems

2003-01-26 Thread bob mcwhirter
A couple of days ago, the Ant classloader was changed significantly, including calling out to a second ClassLoader class, and the Grant AntClassLoader was preventing the new Ant classes from functioning correctly (at least inside the Jelly build). I moved the most recent Ant classloader

Re: [Grant] Ant problems

2003-01-26 Thread bob mcwhirter
); } } Or is the Grant classloader only intended for use with Ant 1.5? If so, I guess I should take it out of the GUMP build. - Morgan --- bob mcwhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of days ago, the Ant classloader was changed significantly, including calling out

Re: [Grant] Ant problems

2003-01-26 Thread bob mcwhirter
Sounds like Ant 1.5.2 could be a reasonable dependency for Maven, and then our problems are solved. I'm hoping that Grant can remove this class, regardless of whether or not I've diagnosed this particular problem correctly; duplicating classes is risky and leads to cranky classloading.

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 1 - dependencies

2002-12-31 Thread bob mcwhirter
So far only Bob has voiced a concern with preparing to release a Jelly beta, and I believe his only concern is whether or not to release it under the Commons umbrella. Yah, I withdraw this concern, and +1 towards release as suggested under jakarta-commons proper. -bob -- To

Re: [Jelly] release manager?

2002-12-25 Thread bob mcwhirter
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[jelly] switch/case

2002-12-10 Thread bob mcwhirter
I think most folks tend to use 'break' with their switch/case statements, and probably have been bitten in the ass a lot due to a missing break. I'd vote for defaultly not falling through, but if you wanted to, add an explicit fall-through/ tag that'd set a fall-through flag to true and execute

Re: [jelly] code style

2002-12-10 Thread bob mcwhirter
Any chance of code style guidelines for jelly? I noticed you reformatted JellyServlet. If you use idea, maybe you can post checkin the xml config file for codestyles... I think he tends to follow the Sun Coding Conventions, much to the irritation of those of us following the more sane

Re: [jelly] code style

2002-12-10 Thread bob mcwhirter
Either way, I think checkstyle should alert you to any violations. Not familiar with this. I use Maven to perform the check, I suppose? I saw a couple of declarations in project.properties... maven checkstyle xdoc:transform That'll generate the checkstyle report for you.

Re: [VOTE] moving Jelly to the commons proper

2002-12-06 Thread bob mcwhirter
-bob I vote as follows on moving Jelly to the Commons Proper: [x] +1 - I support this move and am willing to help [ ] +0 - I support this move, but cannot assist [ ] -0 - I don't support this move [ ] -1 - I vote against this move (requires valid *technical* reasoning) -- To

Re: [general] Killing projects (Was: [pattern] Proposed removal of project)

2002-11-25 Thread bob mcwhirter
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Re: xdox

2002-11-22 Thread bob mcwhirter
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Re: [grant] [vfs] [gump]

2002-10-24 Thread bob mcwhirter
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, can you update the werkz project.xml and add a gumpRepositoryId of werken to it? Sure, but that sounds wrong. There's quite a few werken repos. Is 'werken' really the right name to use here? -bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [grant] [vfs] [gump]

2002-10-24 Thread bob mcwhirter
Are all your repos under /cvsroot? Yah. If so, we should change the repository descriptor to say path/cvsroot/path and in werkz's descriptor you'd say cvs module=werkz repository=werken dir=werkz I can commit the change to the werken repo descriptor, if this is a better

Re: [Latka][Proposal] Make Jelly a required dependency?

2002-10-14 Thread bob mcwhirter
Though I am having second thoughts on whether Commons is the right place for Jelly; maybe it should be a top level Jakarta project? Been waiting for this. I'm going to assume it's a vote... +1 So I'm starting to think it needs to be a top level project with its own sub-projects.

RE: [lang] Ideas for Lang

2002-10-14 Thread bob mcwhirter
I was hoping there might be a good Lisp fanatic or something with some reasons for why a Pair object would be very useful. I seem to recall reading someone's blog opining for a Pair class. Well, you could certainly do lists the LISP way with a Pair class. One element is the CAR and the

Re: [VOTE] was Re: [BeanUtils][Betwixt][commons][jxpath] Proposal: Reflection/Introspection/MetaData package

2002-06-16 Thread bob mcwhirter
I don't know exactly how/if it fits in, but Ant does a fair bit of introspection also. So far, I haven't been able to use beanutils (I may be using it wrong) to do what Ant does. Seems like most of the introspectors out there, given a name fileset will look for something like addFileset(...),

Re: [CLI] Configurable Parsers

2002-06-15 Thread bob mcwhirter
This doc did state though that: Note that the GNU version of getopt will normally permit options anywhere among the arguments unless the special argument `--' is used. This is not what POSIX specifies; it is a GNU extension. So strictly speaking the style of processing the

[betwixt] [digester] Empty stack

2002-06-13 Thread bob mcwhirter
Howdy guys-- This may have been covered already, but... Maven uses Betwixt which uses Digester. We see this occasionally (consistently) [WARN] Digester - -Empty stack (returning null) Is this a message that could be demoted to DEBUG, or does it truly indicate that we've got an issue

[CLI] multiple args

2002-06-13 Thread bob mcwhirter
Howdy folks-- We allow multiple values for an argument now, so that -D foo bar baz results in 'D' having 3 args. Now, I'd like to have multiple instances of single-arg options. To get the above, you'd have to do -D foo -D bar -D baz Why? maven -D

Re: [Jelly] werkz library

2002-06-12 Thread bob mcwhirter
Okay, if you cvs update your jelly repository, it should be seemless now. It'll try to fetch werkz-1.0-build-1.jar from werkz.sf.net/ now, since it's not in the /turbine/jars/ repo. -bob On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, bob mcwhirter wrote: Right now, I'm we're just working from CVS

Re: [Jelly] werkz library

2002-06-12 Thread bob mcwhirter
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Vinay Chandran wrote: Thanks dude. Maybe you can update turbine/jars too sometime. I'm hacking jelly and werkz at the same time, so they are both kinda in flux. I don't want to hassle jvanzyl every few hours to install a new jar. [note to self: this is why we need a

[Jelly] broken mainline now fixed

2002-06-12 Thread bob mcwhirter
Dunno how, but JellyTag never got recompiled, so a bug managed to slip in. Fixed, now, and a build from clean should work. My apologies. -bob -- Bob McWhirter[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Werken Company http://werken.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I need karma

2002-06-12 Thread bob mcwhirter
Crap. Likewise, I probably need commons karma for CLI since it exited the sandbox. -bob On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Jon Scott Stevens wrote: I need karma for the betwixt project now that it has moved over to commons from sandbox. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [Jelly] werkz library

2002-06-12 Thread bob mcwhirter
Fixed. -bob On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, bob mcwhirter wrote: Awe, crap. Fixing.. -bob On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, James Elson wrote: bob mcwhirter wrote: Okay, if you cvs update your jelly repository, it should be seemless now. It'll try to fetch werkz-1.0-build-1

Re: [vote] CVS access for Martin van den Bemt

2002-06-12 Thread bob mcwhirter
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Re: [CLI] Usage Documentation

2002-06-09 Thread bob mcwhirter
I've knocked together a small piece of doc on the basic usage of CLI. Cool! I think we got you enough votes for commit access. Have we decided to allow John to commit directly to commons-sandbox, or do we need to move CLI to normal jakarta-commons first? Anyhow, John, thanks for the

Re: [VOTE] move CLI over to commons

2002-06-06 Thread bob mcwhirter
Do people think that dependencies on ORO and an XML parser are too much overhead for CLI? Should these types of features be made optional or shipped in a separate jar? please keep it optional. +1 optional -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [CLI] bad test format in project.xml

2002-06-06 Thread bob mcwhirter
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Henri Yandell wrote: The pattern for the unit tests in the project.xml is **/Test*.java and yet most of the Tests are of the form [ClassName]Test.java so it misses these. I think this should change to: **/*Test*.java Or just **/*Test.java I've always used

Re: CLI Readme.txt out of date

2002-06-03 Thread bob mcwhirter
Fixed. Thanks! -bob On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Henri Yandell wrote: Thought I'd just mention. The README.txt for CLI is out of date since it was mavenised. It makes no mention of needing maven [assuming it's not hidden inside it somehow] and 'ant doc' no longer exists. -- To

Re: [Collections][Submit] TreeNode and friends

2002-05-26 Thread bob mcwhirter
3. What's the rationale for having equals and hashCode be reference based? The alternative is to compare both the value and children of that node. But in comparing the children, each child node will compare its value and children and so on. This would be potentially very expensive. Its

Re: [SANDBOX-CLI] Multiple value support added

2002-04-29 Thread bob mcwhirter
I think POSIX would argue that -buildfile is the '-b' option with an argument of 'uildfile'. Or possibly equiv to -b -u -i -l -d -f -i -l -e. I would agree, except that Sun seem happy to use the -buildfile style. Supporting both seems important to me. That's a slipperly slope though.

Re: [PATCH sandbox-cli] new features added

2002-04-23 Thread bob mcwhirter
cli was originally my code. James Strachan was guiding it through the sandbox process. I think others were suggesting other implementations from elsewhere in jakarta. And then I think things stalled. James-- Do you know the status of cli? Is it moving forward? -bob On 23 Apr

RE: [httpclient] release and development questions

2002-03-28 Thread bob mcwhirter
I don't mean to get (too) religious or philosophical here, but... It seems to me that a ToDo is just a normal Task that is included in a particular Release. Part of project-management is determining which things are going into which release. Instead of maintaining a pre-release todo-list and

Re: [OT] thoughts on Java pre processor

2002-03-05 Thread bob mcwhirter
Just thinking aloud here (as always ;-). Thoughts? My only thought is the lack of a directive to allow the compiler to tell you the file/line of any errors. I'm rusty on my C++, but I seem to recall they had a #file directive, so that the post-processed file, when compiled, could signal errors

Re: Workflow

2002-02-07 Thread bob mcwhirter
WFMC and friends are more appropriately used at what the Commons Workflow proposal calls the Process concept (which hasn't been fleshed out at all yet) than the Activity concept (which is focused on the lower level things). Might want to check out the Savvion stuff. Yes, it's commercial,

Re: CLI - auto-generated usage message anyone?

2002-01-29 Thread bob mcwhirter
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Slawek Zachcial wrote: Hi, What do you mean by CLI does not interpret cmd? I assume the equivelent of: cvs -dfoo commit He'd like to bind 'commit' (the cmd) to a particular Command callback, or similar. Personally, I like the idea, and have implemented

Re: [Design Discussion] DynaBean - JavaBeans with dynamic properties

2001-12-15 Thread bob mcwhirter
* A bean object that represents a Row from a JDBC ResultSet (the names and types of the column properties cannot be known in advance because they are based on the SELECT statement). * A way to construct and use value objects that extract the properties of an EJB into a structure that