Am 11.11.2009 22:48, Martin Buchholz schrieb:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:46, Stephen Colebourne
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Martin Buchholz wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:10, Ulf Zibis <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
At least, IMO, fileSeparator() and pathSeparator() would
belong to
java.io.File or java.nio.file.FileSystem.
Those would have been better names,
but at this point they are not worth adding.
I don't follow - why are they not worth adding now?
Because java.io.File already provides the functionality users need.
Not in the best way - as fields instead of methods, and
only the first char of the system property. But it's not broken enough
to be worth fixing by providing a slightly better API.
Sorry for not have checked that (misleaded by request from
[email protected] 46 hours ago)
IMO, of course.
Becuase they should have been in JDK 1.0? Because JDK 7 is about
to release? Some other reason? How and who is deciding?
it's a hard problem, and one that Sun/JCP/OpenJDK still needs to address.
I know this problem, see:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100091, 100092, 100095,
100098, 1000104, 1000105, 1000107 and plenty patches from others.
Most of them not even just have sponsors :-(
Seems to be work for garbage. Only few externals have chance for
contribution, mostly ex-employees from Sun.
I guess right now folks are waiting for the Oracle acquisition.
Hopefully!
-Ulf
