On 7/4/07, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* We were already starting to clone classes from what was originally HttpClient and is now HttpComponents. One example is the ParameterParser class. When I saw HttpComponents being born, saw a lot of other stuff in there that FileUpload was doing, it looked like it would make a lot of sense to build FileUpload on top of HttpComponents, thus dramatically cutting down the amount of code necessary to build a FileUpload package.
I agree with you on that it might make sense to reuse components from outside, if possible. Unfortunately HttpComponents (in the person of Oleg Kalnichevski) has repeatedly declared that he has no interest in adding a multipart parser to httpcomponents, which would be (IMO) the most important part. Instead he suggested to add such a parser to Commons Codec. I personally believe, that this extends the scope of Commons Codec. But yes, if possible, I'd still be interested to reuse another multipart parser. Do you know of any ASL licensed?
Also, it would still be good to have a much more clear distinction between what is supposed to be public and what is not. (For example, recall the MultipartStream threads from not so long ago.)
Agreed. I was surprised to hear that the multipart parser *is* being reused.
Oh, and I'm definitely in favour of going for a 2.0 release and cleaning up some crud along the way. I just don't think I'll be in a position to help any time soon, I'm afraid.
As expected, but sad to hear anyways. :-) Thanks, Jochen -- "Besides, manipulating elections is under penalty of law, resulting in a preventative effect against manipulating elections. The german government justifying the use of electronic voting machines and obviously believing that we don't need a police, because all illegal actions are forbidden. http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/051/1605194.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
