I would stick with reader. Extractor might confuse people. That a reader is incomplete should be stated in the comment Stefan
Am Thursday 02 November 2006 11:02 schrieb Egon Willighagen: > Hi all, > > I would like comments on the following proposal: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- Rename the *Reader IO classes to *Extractor > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- > > The reason is that most of our 'Reader's actually do not read the full > format, but just a subsection of it. Many readers to lists what the do and > do not read, but 'extractor' might make more clear that we indeed only > extract bits from those files. > > The goal is really to have a reader, with support for the full format, but > that is, unfortunately, not reality for many extractors we have. I think > only XYZReader is really a Reader. > > Would this rename make things more clear? > > Egon -- Stefan Kuhn B. Sc. M. A. Cologne University BioInformatics Center (http://www.cubic.uni-koeln.de) Zülpicher Str. 47, 50674 Cologne Tel: +49(0)221-470-7428 Fax: +49 (0) 221-470-7786 My public PGP key is available at http://pgp.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Cdk-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdk-user

