Re: Commons-transaction abandoned?

2010-03-07 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Oliver Zeigermann oliver.zeigerm...@gmail.com wrote: Folks! What Henri says is completely right. The project has been abandoned by me as I lost faith in one of its goal - ACID properties (especially atomicity) on any file system. From my (and others) point

Re: Commons-transaction abandoned?

2010-03-06 Thread Henri Yandell
I think the next step would be to raise the issue on the dev list - retiring Transaction because xyz. Then if no one has any bright ideas or helps you have any bright ideas then we can go ahead and move it onto the retirement side. It's a pretty strong message to say This is just not

Re: Commons-transaction abandoned?

2010-03-06 Thread Ralph Goers
I'm trying to understand what goals can't be met. Oliver is implying that none of it is possible, but I don't understand how it would be impossible to have transactional collections as the web page mentions. I agree that I would like to understand what the challenges are before closing it

Re: Commons-transaction abandoned?

2010-03-05 Thread Henri Yandell
The current version is 1.2 (released in 2007). 1.3-SNAPSHOT is then the subsequent version in development, but it looks as though it was quickly renamed to 2.0. 2.0 currently has 6 of 9 issues resolved, the most recent being reported and applied in Sept 2009, and 2 of the open issues were opened

Re: Commons-transaction abandoned?

2010-03-05 Thread Oliver Zeigermann
Folks! What Henri says is completely right. The project has been abandoned by me as I lost faith in one of its goal - ACID properties (especially atomicity) on any file system. From my (and others) point of view it can not be achieved by *any* implementation. So if you are asking whether there

Re: Commons-transaction abandoned?

2010-03-05 Thread Henri Yandell
That would be dead then :) If it's not possible - I think we should retire the library asap with such a statement. Do not use - it's not able to do what it says on the tin. Is there any more conversation we should have before determining that a) it's misleading and b) there shouldn't be a 1.3 or

Commons-transaction abandoned?

2010-02-10 Thread John Ericksen
Hello, I came across the file transaction capabilities in commons-transaction today which was exactly what I was looking for. To my disapointment, however, it looks like there hasn't been an update to the project for over 2 years. The home page says the current version is a SNAPSHOT and from my