Re: Using Apache Commons IO

2017-01-18 Thread Javen O'Neal
ree with Nick. I'm slightly inclined to not using Commons IO to > > avoid potential conflicts, but I defer to the more active devs :). > > > > We can't do the equivalent of a maven-shade-plugin in Ant, can we? Looks > > like maybe in gradle...but... > > > > > >

Re: Using Apache Commons IO

2017-01-18 Thread Dominik Stadler
evelopers List <dev@poi.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Using Apache Commons IO > > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Javen O'Neal wrote: > > In the spirit of "the best code is no code", how would you feel about > > replacing our endian classes and IOUtils with Apache Com

RE: Using Apache Commons IO

2017-01-17 Thread Allison, Timothy B.
[mailto:apa...@gagravarr.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:35 PM To: POI Developers List <dev@poi.apache.org> Subject: Re: Using Apache Commons IO On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Javen O'Neal wrote: > In the spirit of "the best code is no code", how would you feel about > replac

Re: Using Apache Commons IO

2017-01-17 Thread Andreas Beeker
I always wonder why a lot of these oldies stick with POI 3.9 and based on your explanation there wouldn't be much reason not to use 3.10 as there weren't much breaking changes ... if any. So it must be something else ... I start to believe - especially when dealing with a few stackoverflow

RE: Using Apache Commons IO

2017-01-17 Thread Murphy, Mark
e semantic versioning rules. I think this would help the user community, and even projects with dependencies to POI. -Original Message- From: Nick Burch [mailto:apa...@gagravarr.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:35 PM To: POI Developers List <dev@poi.apache.org> Subject: Re: Using A

Re: Using Apache Commons IO

2017-01-17 Thread Nick Burch
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Javen O'Neal wrote: In the spirit of "the best code is no code", how would you feel about replacing our endian classes and IOUtils with Apache Commons IO? The downside is that it adds a dependency. https://poi.apache.org/overview.html#components How many classes do we