On 3/5/06, Stephen Colebourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we establish the status of [resources]. > > Rahul Akolkar wrote: > > * [resources] Since now it isn't part of Struts 1.3.0, seems thats a > > setback to interest in releasing. > > IFAIK: > - its unreleased > - there is little development effort (although something happened in > November) > - there could be a overlap with [configuration] > - its raison d'etre seems to have disappeared
It is unreleased. Struts 1.3.x had a dependency on it and I got involved in Nov to do a release, as it was holding up Struts 1.3. However, when I started looking into the code I ended up wanting to change quite a bit of the API (which I never got round to). Struts got fed up and removed the dependency. Except for the bit of work I did, I believe the last work done was back in around June 2005 - so if you discount my failed attempt to push it out of the door - then IMO it is/was pretty dormant. I believe it still has a good reason to exist - its code was factored out of Struts with the intention of whats in Struts being deprecated and replaced by resources. That is still true today and e.g. localized JDBC resources comes up every now and again on the struts user list. Also other projects, such as Shale, could possibly use it. Having said that IMO it should be more tightly focused with some of whats currently in there being removed and further API changes made. I'm very unlikely to do that as I'm starting to think that adopting orphans is probably a waste of time. > Does a [resources] developer want to speak up in its favour? > Or should we fast track it to dormant? If no other commons developers show interest in working on it then +1 Niall > Stephen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
