Re: [PROPOSAL/VOTE] Digester Package

[Scott Sanders]

>> Would it make any sense to move it into beanutils?
>> 
> 
> 
> You mean Digester itself?  I don't think so, if we are talking about
> fine-grained components.  Consider:
> * Beanutils is very narrowly focused on low-level introspection based
>   functionality, and can be used underneath multiple higher level APIs.
> * Struts uses beanutils separately from the indirect use via Digester
>   already, to support the property-related custom tags it has.
> * Anyone using ExtendedProperties (nee Configuration) for config files
>   instead of XML-based files doesn't need the extra baggage of XML
>   parsing in the beanutils component.
> * Anyone not using XML at all would certainly *not* appreciate adding
>   an XML parser dependency to use the basic beanutils stuff.
> 
> Craig

Fair enough.