Recently, someone checked in a class 'Sitestat.java" in the core (ver
1.7). This class is an escaper which allows you to escape identifiers
for sitestat counters (a utility from a dutch compaby taht allwos you to
keep statistics on your site).
I think it is completely folly to move a 10-line, quite generic class, which
can certainly have use to others, to it's own application.
As long as there is no general purpose 'util application' this is the only
way.
And as long as it generates no external compile time dependencies or so, I don't
even see any problems with such generic utilies in mmmbase.jar itself. It's
only convenient.
At least I cannot think of even one actual concrete problem with that.
Perhaps the only one is that it would slighty increase the size of
mmbase.jar with a few bytes, but come on, really, we can't seriously call
_that_ an important issue.
Your arguments are correct, but I think you are missing Pierres point.
If we continue with bloating the core (base), we should perhaps refactor
'MMBase' to 'MMoloch'.
:)
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