On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Gary Lucas <gwlu...@sonalysts.com> wrote: > > Damjan, > > I just saw that you were soliciting votes for release. I think you've done > an outstanding job and I'm all for it. I would vote twice if I could :-) > > I saw that some of the folks on the Apache page were complaining about some > of the code-checking issues. I've never looked at these myself, but I suppose > that many of them are not worth fixing. > > For example, somebody complained that a class shouldn't have a publically > scoped array. Let's say a programmer tried to address that. If he writes a > "get" method that is a simple pass-through returning a reference to the > internal array, has he really added any security (meaning protection against > accidental misuse)? Of course not. Suppose, instead, that he writes a > method that makes a copy of the array before returning it. Now he's improved > security, but degraded the performance of the overall code... maybe > seriously. And in imaging processing, performance trumps security almost > every time. > > Anyway, if there are specific areas in the TIFF tree or elsewhere that you > would like me to review, please let me know and I'll be glad to take a look > at them. > > Gary
Thank you. I've fixed the worst problems, and I plan on trying to release RC3 in a few days. I doubt those public array scoping will stop the release, and I plan on making big changes to the whole API for Imaging version 2.0 so we'll see then. Regards Damjan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
