On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:10 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 August 2011 20:56, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello All! >> >> Topic 1: Housekeeping: package name and POM. >> >> The next codec release out of trunk will be major release labeled 2.0, >> the current release is 1.5. >> >> In trunk, I've removed deprecated methods and the project now requires >> Java 5. This means 2.0 will not be a drop-in binary compatible release >> for 1.5. >> >> I'd like to confirm or deny that this means the package name will >> change to o.a.c.codec2 and that the POM groupId will have to change >> from commons-codec to org.apache.commons. 2.0 and 1.5 would be able to >> live side by side. > > Yes, the name changes are necessary to avoid problems with incompatible jars. > >> I'd like to get this out of the way first hence topic 1. >> >> >> Topic 2: Beider-Morse (BM) Encoder API >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CODEC-125 >> >> BM is a new codec for 2.0. >> >> The encode API returns a set of encodings. >> >> In trunk, this is currently a String in the format "s1|s2|s3". >> >> I think this is not the best design, a set should be a Set, in this >> case, an ordered set. Or, a List. Generally, it should be a Collection >> of Strings. >> >> There was concern with call sites that generically use a [codec] >> Encoder with the signature "Object encoder(Object)" and call >> toString() on the result. >> >> If we set the API to "CharSequence encode(Set<CharSequence>)" or >> "String encode(Set<String>)", doing a toString() on a HashSet will >> yield a usable String similar as to what trunk does now. For example, >> for a HashSet of Strings "a", "b" and "c", HashSet.toString() returns >> "[a, b, c]" which no worse than "a|b|c" IMO. At least it is a >> documented and stable format. > > +1 > >> Topic 3: Generics >> >> This will be in a separate thread but I'd like to get this in 2.0 >> because this will likely break the API and I only want to break things >> once and not have to do a codec3 for generics. > > +1.
I'll work on a generified codec2 over the next couple of days and present what that looks like, maybe in a branch, or a patch. Gary > >> Thank you all, >> Gary >> >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Matthew Pocock >> <turingatemyhams...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As those of you who've been following the CODEC-125 ticket will know, with >>> Greg's help I've got a port of the beider morse phonetic >>> matching (bmpm) algorithm in as a string encoder. As far as I can tell, it's >>> ready for people to use and abuse. It ideally needs more test-case words, >>> but to the best of my knowledge it doesn't have any horrendous bugs or >>> performance issues. >>> >>> The discussion on the ticket started to stray off bmpm and on to policy for >>> releases and changing APIs, and Sebb said we should discuss it on the list. >>> So, here we are. >>> >>> Ideally, I'd like there to be a release of commons-codec some time soon so >>> that users can start to try out bmpm right away, and so that we can start >>> the process of adding it to the list of supported indexing methods in solr. >>> What do people think? >>> >>> Matthew >>> >>> -- >>> Dr Matthew Pocock >>> Visitor, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University >>> mailto: turingatemyhams...@gmail.com >>> gchat: turingatemyhams...@gmail.com >>> msn: matthew_poc...@yahoo.co.uk >>> irc.freenode.net: drdozer >>> tel: (0191) 2566550 >>> mob: +447535664143 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thank you, >> Gary >> >> http://garygregory.wordpress.com/ >> http://garygregory.com/ >> http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/ >> http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- Thank you, Gary http://garygregory.wordpress.com/ http://garygregory.com/ http://people.apache.org/~ggregory/ http://twitter.com/GaryGregory --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
