Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Drew Davidson wrote: Dennis Sosnoski wrote: Drew Davidson wrote: [...] I personally feel that ego JSRs such as this are turning the way the process should work on its head by saying "we're going to build this technology that everybody is going to want to use." If that's really t

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Drew Davidson
Dennis Sosnoski wrote: Drew Davidson wrote: [...] I personally feel that ego JSRs such as this are turning the way the process should work on its head by saying "we're going to build this technology that everybody is going to want to use." If that's really the case, why not just build the tec

Re: [jug-discussion] i'm lazy ;-), copy/move uppercase files/folders to lower-case

2004-03-17 Thread Drew Davidson
Tim Colson wrote: I have to write a task that takes a group of directories convert them to all lowercase (including filenames) and then zip them up. something similar already or had any suggestions #!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use POSIX; use File::Copy; use File::Basename; my $li

RE: [jug-discussion] i'm lazy ;-), copy/move uppercase files/folders to lower-case

2004-03-17 Thread William H. Mitchell
I'm sure that Tom Hicks and Andy Huntwork saw this coming, but since Tim invoked the creature, I must counter with this moderately tested solution in Unicon. It seems to work for me on XP. procedure main(args) process(args[1]) end procedure process(dirname) isdir(dirname) | stop(dirname,

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Warner Onstine wrote: And also with reference to what Dennis said about JDOM, whatever happened with that JSR? http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=102 It looks like it died, but I don't see any explanation. It refuses to die, but so far has successfully resisted completion. See http://www.j

RE: [jug-discussion] i'm lazy ;-), copy/move uppercase files/folders to lower-case

2004-03-17 Thread Tim Colson
> I have to write a task that takes a group of directories convert > them to all lowercase (including filenames) and then zip them up. > something similar already or had any suggestions Haha. In a past life when Perl scripts roamed more freely in my user directory, I'd have done something like

Re: [jug-discussion] i'm lazy ;-), copy/move uppercase files/folders to lower-case

2004-03-17 Thread Vincent . Greene
I would forget about copying them and just use the File class and ZipOutputStream to read the mixed case files with embedded spaces while writing a zip file with lowercase names and underscores. Should be pretty simple and you wouldn't have to create a copy of everything and then zip it as anot

[jug-discussion] i'm lazy ;-), copy/move uppercase files/folders to lower-case

2004-03-17 Thread Warner Onstine
Hi all, I have to write a task that takes a group of directories convert them to all lowercase (including filenames) and then zip them up. Originally I was going to do this in PHP (haven't had a real java project in a lng time), then I had some inspiration to use Ant! I'm looking through th

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Warner Onstine
Just to make sure of the context, was this the comment that Rob made during his presentation? If so, I believe what he was saying was that proposing a JSR is a long road and it takes a dedication (and time) to manage it, if you were going to do so. I don't believe that he was saying anything s

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Dennis Sosnoski
Drew Davidson wrote: I just got this forwarded to me by Randy Kahle: http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44117&rss=1 Interesting how Apache (via Gier Magnusson) is part of this JSR, as well as Richard Monson-Haefel (famous author and Java guru). When the idea of an OGNL JSR was brought up

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Rob Gingell
Drew Davidson wrote: > When the idea of an OGNL JSR was brought up to Sun's Rob Gingell I got a > negative response (almost condescending actually - Rob shook his head > and chuckled a "no" to me). In light of this JSR I'd like to know why > OGNL is not "worthy" of a JSR and Groovy is. Sorry if I

Re: [jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Mar 17, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Drew Davidson wrote: When the idea of an OGNL JSR was brought up to Sun's Rob Gingell I got a negative response (almost condescending actually - Rob shook his head and chuckled a "no" to me). In light of this JSR I'd like to know why OGNL is not "worthy" of a JSR a

[jug-discussion] OGNL and JSRs

2004-03-17 Thread Drew Davidson
I just got this forwarded to me by Randy Kahle: http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44117&rss=1 Interesting how Apache (via Gier Magnusson) is part of this JSR, as well as Richard Monson-Haefel (famous author and Java guru). When the idea of an OGNL JSR was brought up to Sun's Rob Gingell