On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Justin Deoliveira <[email protected]>wrote:
> +0.
>
> The guava library looks beautiful, no question there, and there is a lot
> of hype around it at the moment on all the java blogs. But as I mentioned
> before, and as jody mentioned i don't love the idea just lumping on another
> utility library. Obviously it leads to much nicer code, and has some
> functionality we don't have now but without a concrete problem it solves i
> don't see that as justification enough alone. It is already enough of a
> maze trying to look up the right utility class to use when you have to do
> something, this will make it worse.
>
> Also, what happens when guava becomes outdated? For instance what if a new
> snazzy library comes out that makes coding on later java versions
> (7,8,etc...) much nicer. Will we add it and have then commons, guava, and
> it?
>
> Anyways, sorry, this is not a negative vote, just an explanation of
> a slightly non positive one :) I would actually be more in favor of a lower
> level effort at the geotools level to replace commons with guava. Obviously
> though that is a larger effort and by no means meant to block the proposal.
>
I feel the same, but at the same time I'm worried the code will turn into
COBOL pretty soon if we don't
do some effort to modernize it.
The situation with scripting languages and the various "java successors"
seems like a grand royal mess
that is not going to give us a clear successor to Java anytime soon, so we
better try to get onto more
compact/modern code and try to prolongue the life of the code base as much
as possible.
Of course once we adopt Guava we must make an effort to use it instead of
commons wherever
possible/makes sense to get some uniformity back.
+1 on the proposal
Cheers
Andrea
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