Re: [codec] Thoughs on Generics

2013-04-29 Thread Jörg Schaible
Gary Gregory wrote: Thoughts on generics for Codec I tried an approach to add generics to Codec here: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/codec/branches/generics I consider this (now old) experiment part success and part failure and I would like to share it here. I will

Re: [codec] Thoughs on Generics

2013-04-29 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 29/04/2013 04:21, Gary Gregory a écrit : Upon reflection, it seems overly restrictive (thanks to Java) to have one encoding or decoding type per class. What should be the alternative for a nice OO design? Just a wild guess, but would a builder pattern be suitable for codec? Maybe

Re: [codec] Thoughs on Generics

2013-04-29 Thread sebb
On 29 April 2013 03:21, Gary Gregory garydgreg...@gmail.com wrote: Thoughts on generics for Codec I tried an approach to add generics to Codec here: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/codec/branches/generics I consider this (now old) experiment part success and part failure and

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread sebb
On 29 April 2013 09:42, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I certainly *want* to change the API if something is broken, so I guess an alpha release would be safer. I could imagine doing a first alpha till next week, and postpone some changes to an alpha2 release, as I will

[LANG] LANG-884 - OK to commit patch?

2013-04-29 Thread sebb
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-884 has a patch to simplify FastDateFormat which I would like to apply. OK?

Re: Bad link in the javadocs

2013-04-29 Thread Gary Gregory
Hi Ron, Thank you for the report. Can you create a JIRA for this please? Do you have a fix perchance? Gary On Apr 29, 2013, at 1:53, Ron Wheeler rwhee...@artifact-software.com wrote: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-codec/apidocs/org/apache/commons/codec/language/Metaphone.html

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Well, I certainly *want* to change the API if something is broken, so I guess an alpha release would be safer. I could imagine doing a first alpha till next week, and postpone some changes to an alpha2 release, as I will need a bit more time to work on the Trie interface and maybe add a fluent API

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 April 2013 09:42, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I certainly *want* to change the API if something is broken, so I guess an alpha release would be safer. Please keep upwards compatibility to any

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread Phil Steitz
On 4/29/13 5:39 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 April 2013 09:42, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I certainly *want* to change the API if something is broken, so I guess an alpha release would be safer.

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread sebb
On 29 April 2013 15:51, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/29/13 5:39 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 April 2013 09:42, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I certainly *want* to change the

[math] fluent/builder API for algorithms in 4.0 ?

2013-04-29 Thread Luc Maisonobe
Hi all, Since 2.x series, we have been struggling in several areas with respect to algorithms API. The latest change was about optimizer, but it is only one example among others (solvers, integration, ODE and maybe some parts of statistics may be concerned by the proposal below). The various

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread Thomas Neidhart
On 04/29/2013 11:02 AM, sebb wrote: On 29 April 2013 09:42, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I certainly *want* to change the API if something is broken, so I guess an alpha release would be safer. I could imagine doing a first alpha till next week, and postpone some

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread Thomas Neidhart
On 04/29/2013 04:51 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: On 4/29/13 5:39 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 April 2013 09:42, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I certainly *want* to change the API if something is broken, so

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:56:02 +0100, sebb wrote: On 29 April 2013 15:51, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/29/13 5:39 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 April 2013 09:42, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com

Re: [math] fluent/builder API for algorithms in 4.0 ?

2013-04-29 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:40:52 +0200, Luc Maisonobe wrote: Hi all, Since 2.x series, we have been struggling in several areas with respect to algorithms API. The latest change was about optimizer, but it is only one example among others (solvers, integration, ODE and maybe some parts of

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread sebb
On 29 April 2013 21:49, Gilles gil...@harfang.homelinux.org wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:56:02 +0100, sebb wrote: On 29 April 2013 15:51, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/29/13 5:39 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread sebb
On 29 April 2013 19:36, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/29/2013 11:02 AM, sebb wrote: On 29 April 2013 09:42, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I certainly *want* to change the API if something is broken, so I guess an alpha release would be

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread sebb
Sorry, hit wrong button - not yet used to the new GMail. On 29 April 2013 19:36, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/29/2013 11:02 AM, sebb wrote: On 29 April 2013 09:42, Thomas Neidhart thomas.neidh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I certainly *want* to change the API if

Re: [collections] beta release - howto

2013-04-29 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:47:15 +0100, sebb wrote: On 29 April 2013 21:49, Gilles gil...@harfang.homelinux.org wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:56:02 +0100, sebb wrote: On 29 April 2013 15:51, Phil Steitz phil.ste...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/29/13 5:39 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 29,

Re: [LANG] LANG-884 - OK to commit patch?

2013-04-29 Thread Honton, Charles
I am ambivalent. The change adds some, but not much extra clarity to the implementation. On the other hand, this change does change the public signatures of FormatCache. Is FormatCache considered part of the API? chas On 4/29/13 2:06 AM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [LANG] LANG-884 - OK to commit patch?

2013-04-29 Thread sebb
On 30 April 2013 00:20, Honton, Charles charles_hon...@intuit.com wrote: I am ambivalent. The change adds some, but not much extra clarity to the implementation. On the other hand, this change does change the public signatures of FormatCache. Is FormatCache considered part of the API? No.