On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Nick Burch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi All > > > > > > I've been chatting to a few people at ApacheCon about a j2me commons, > and > > > they suggested I bring the idea to the dev list. > > > > > <snip/> > > > > I'm one of those people. > > > > > > > > > My idea was to have a commons library that implemented all the common > > > things you want to do for j2me, which have annoyingly been missed out of > > > the j2me spec, or are quite hard to do. > > > > > > Currently, I have a few functions that I've written for a project, which > > > I'm happy to apache license. What I also have is tests for them, and > some > > > ant magic which allows you to build them on j2se, and also to unit test > > > them on j2se, against a j2me class library (assuming you have the sun > wtk > > > installed somewhere) > > > > > > > > > Do people think this is worth putting in as a new sandbox component? I'm > > > happy to oversee the new component, if people are happy for me to put it > > > in (+grant myself appropriate svn karma to do so) > > > > > <snap/> > > > > I think we need a different name ( not [j2me] ). Please try to define > > a scope via a proposal ( see recent example: > > http://markmail.org/message/4z6z4zendcusdcnu ) -- its great for > > archival so I like those things :-) > > > > All - > > > > I suggest we let Nick have a go at it. > > > > The scope / component size question raised is real. I think we will > > have a better idea when we see the code. > > +1, good thinking. If things scope grows too large, they can always go > upwards. It's much harder for an Incubator project or TLP to discover > it was in fact too small and go downwards. As Nick's a committer, > let's give him Sandbox space.
No problem from me doing this in the sandbox and seeing how it works out. Niall > Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
