"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>
> > Jason van Zyl wrote:
> > >
> > > "Geir Magnusson Jr." wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is a cool utility class, and a good thing, so I'm all for it.
> > > >
> > > > How about checking into the sandbox, we can work on basic docs and
> > > > packaging, and then bring it to a full vote when it's organized a bit
> > > > for people to see?
> > >
> > > Sure, sounds good. I'm making my sandbox now!
> > >
> >
> > Ok - I just made a project in sandbox
> >
> > jakarta-commons-sandbox/configuration
> >
> > there is a build.xml (ant dist should do it for you...)
> >
> > Will get the testcase wired up tomorrow.
> >
> > Take a look - If a 'formal proposal' is required, fine. But you can
> > consider this a request for votes to make this a commons component -
> > this is a class that is useful and would be shared immediately by
> > Velocity and Turbine.
> >
> > 1) Initial committers will be Jason, myself and we will find a third
> > from Turbine.
> >
> > 2) This will have active support because it is central to Velocity and
> > Turbine internal configuration.
> >
> > 3) It's trivially small.
> >
> > 4) We have a test case already in Velocity, and will get that working
> > tomorrow in Commons.
> >
> >
> > So +1 from me :)
> >
> > geir
> >
> > --
> > Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Developing for the web? See http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/
> >
>
> IIRC, this thing used to be called ExtendedProperties in its Apache JServ
> incantation. If it were renamed to that, would it fit into the proposed
> collections package?
I thought it had been around a while...
We can call it 'Rupert' if that makes people happier :)
ExtendedProperties seems appropriate, as that is what it aims to be.
>
> I'm fine with including it either way, but for one class it'd probably be
> better to find a home with other like-minded stuff.
>
Doesn't seem to me like collections is the right place - that seems to
be more general purpose (lists, hashes, etc...) Rather a component of a
package focued on 'configuration data' - doesn't Struts have a few bits
like this?
geir
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Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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