2013/5/21 Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]> > Le 21/05/2013 17:47, Benedikt Ritter a écrit : > > > Well that still doesn't tell us, what your definition of a "real" builder > > is :-) The latest trunk contains a builder implementation with a fluent > > API. It has been criticized for being to verbose when creating new > formats > > from existing ones. This is why we came up with this new proposal, that > is > > less verbose but requires static imports. > > What about simply going back to the previous design (fluent API without > builder) ? The only drawback was the need to validate the format > explicitly. That is the best compromise IMHO. >
Hi Emmanuel, I think we have discussed this a lot (maybe to much). You certainly know my arguments against the old solution and I still think they are valid. Also, I understand your arguments and think they are equally valid. I believe we have tried a lot to finally reach consensus about this issue. We have tried several solutions and to me it seems, that consensus can simply not be reached (an argument that can't be settled in 5 minutes can't be settled with arguments at all). Having this said, I'm willing to give my +0 for going back for the old impl if the others (by this I specially me Gary and sebb) also agree. I believe that this issue has blocked us for such a long time from pushing csv forward, that it is time to overcome personal preferences and just chose one solution or the other. So if you can at least convince Gary and sebb, let's do it and then go on. I want to see csv see the light of day :-) Benedikt > > Emmanuel Bourg > > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter
