--- On Fri, 9/11/09, Henri Yandell <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Henri Yandell <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [collections] generics WAS [jira] Commented: (COLLECTIONS-110) > Support parametized classes with commons.collections. > To: "Commons Developers List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 10:33 AM > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Matt > Benson<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> Henri Yandell commented on COLLECTIONS-110: > >> ------------------------------------------- > >> > >> In the absence of anyone being active on a rewrite > of > >> Collections for generics, I agree with James that > you should > >> look elsewhere for an active project. > >> > >> I'm happy to help out with Collections 3.x bugs, > and have > >> done a fair bit towards 3.3, but I've neither the > time to > >> release 3.3 nor inclination to drive a redesigned > 4.0. > >> > >> This is someday going to drive me to want to add > some of > >> the core most basic pieces of Collections to Lang > :) I > >> suspect that might be after a look at > google-collections to > >> make sure it's not something they have. Parts of > >> ComparatorUtils, CollectionUtils, MapUtils and > SetUtils. > > > > Most of the work here has been done in the > collections_jdk5_branch. Are we ready for these > > changes to be merged back to trunk, and is there > anyone who considers his svn-fu to be top- > > notch for the purposes of a large and complex merge? > If we answer the first question "yes," > > maybe we should start a thread for the second > question, as my attempts to merge were less > > than fruitful. > > If: > > a) it's considered that collections_jdk5 is ready, and > b) someone volunteers to be the release manager > > then I'll take a stab at the merge. Definitely done these > in the past, > though it's always fun when you can't walk over to the > people who made > the commits and get them to explain the problematic > change. > > First up would be to cp trunk to a 3.x branch. It's also > possible that > merging from trunk to the branch may prove easier. Damn it, Hen--that's part of the debate I wanted to save for a new thread! ;) > > Currently there are 28 open issues on the Generics JIRA > version. Some > big topics in there still, so I'm not convinced on a) > above. That > said, if it's felt that it's far enough along and there is > interest/energy, then the merge could happen and patches > could be > double applied. Obviously my time has been retardedly limited as of late. I must confess I wasn't aware of there being any issues on the generics JIRA version, so it's quite possible I have addressed some of them. I'll take a look. -Matt > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
