Hi, If you put a patch on the wiki, remember to bracket it with <nowiki> </nowiki> so it doesn't get interpreted. You might want to use a <PRE> tag as well.
WILL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Colson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Velocity Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 8:45 AM Subject: RE: velocity tools playground > Eelco - > > I'm not a maintainer, but I'll give you my opinion, valued at far less > than 2 cents. :-) > > Personally, I like the idea of folks throwing patches like this one up > on a VelocityPatches page on the wiki. If people who try the patches > like it, the people working on the official code (in this case Nathan, I > think) could pull it into the official distro. > > I know the official method is to submit a patch via bugzilla, but that > seems a bit rigid. Maybe I've got a patch I want folks to be able to > play with and give me feedback. If they think my patch is worthwhile, > they might even suggest improvements, and then maybe I'd submit it for > official consideration. > > The wiki seems perfect for this playground to me. > Timo > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eelco Hillenius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 1:24 PM > To: Velocity Developers List > Subject: velocity tools playground > > > So, did you (the current maintainers) think about creating something > like a playground for contributions like earlier mentioned on this list? > Or do you think the wiki should play that role? > > Anyway, I think this is a small but usefull patch. In my opinion it is a > very common case to work with longs (timestamps) internally where you > want to display dates. > > -- BEGIN > > Index: DateTool.java > =================================================================== > RCS file: > /home/cvspublic/jakarta-velocity-tools/src/java/org/apache/velocity/tool > s/generic/DateTool.java,v > retrieving revision 1.2 > diff -u -r1.2 DateTool.java > --- DateTool.java 28 May 2003 00:17:15 -0000 1.2 > +++ DateTool.java 2 Jul 2003 20:18:56 -0000 > @@ -282,6 +282,12 @@ > { > return ((Calendar)obj).getTime(); > } > + if(obj instanceof Long) > + { > + Date d = new Date(); > + d.setTime(((Long)obj).longValue()); > + return d; > + } > try > { > //try parsing the obj as String w/a DateFormat > > -- END > > Eelco > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
