I think Avalon File Repository is only used by James. I agree that doing the more 
relaxed filter and taking control over file repository is the right thing to do. 

Harmeet

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From: Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Dec 21, 12:35 AM

> Stephen McConnell wrote:
> > That's it?
> > Let's just fix it in Avalon.
> > Steve.
> 
> This isn't a "fix" in Avalon.  The behavior was intentionally changed in 
> Avalon about a year ago (to number repository instances) to allow you to 
> have multiple file repositories in the same directory.  James doesn't 
> need that functionality and creates separate directories for each 
> repository.  It becomes a problem for James though because with the way 
> James works, the renumbering causes messages to disappear between restarts.
> 
> It's not so much of a fix as a change someone made in Avalon without 
> consulting anybody who used it, and for that exact reason I don't think 
> it's wise to switch it back.  So rather than again changing the 
> behavior, if you were to fix this in Avalon, you would figure out a way 
> to reliably calculate the numbers for these repositories.  I don't know 
> how you would do that, but that's really what you want... or recognize 
> these file repositories are not appropriate across JVM instances (like 
> maybe short-term caching).
> 
> This is just the trivial work-around for James to have the behavior of 
> file repositories we want.  What I'm working on is a file repository 
> that doesn't number AND will read messages with a numbered repository 
> name in the same directory.  It's not really that hard... making an 
> extension file name filter be a bit more relaxed in what it will return. 
>   Anyway, hope to have it soon... finally sorted out CVS w/ssh on this box.
> 
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> Serge Knystautas
> Loki Technologies
> http://www.lokitech.com/
> 
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