Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Gary Gregory
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: > > > > > On Dec 13, 2011, at 7:10 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Phil Steitz > wrote: > > > >> Lots of applications depend on the 1.x branch as it is now. > > > > > > Hello, > > > > What does it mean for an ap

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Gary Gregory
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 13/12/2011 14:25, Ted Dunning wrote: > > Frankly, I think that the lack of generics in commons components drives > > away more users than having java 1.4 compatibility retains. > > I disagree in this case. > > A large proportion of the com

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Phil Steitz
On Dec 13, 2011, at 7:10 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: > >> Lots of applications depend on the 1.x branch as it is now. > > > Hello, > > What does it mean for an app to depend on a specific branch in SVN? > > Do those apps depend on 1.x SN

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Mark Thomas
On 13/12/2011 14:25, Ted Dunning wrote: > Frankly, I think that the lack of generics in commons components drives > away more users than having java 1.4 compatibility retains. I disagree in this case. A large proportion of the commons pool user base is from: Apache Tomcat 5/6/7 -> Apache Commons

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread sebb
On 13 December 2011 14:50, Phil Steitz wrote: > We have code close to ready for release that is fully genericised.  Let's do > that. > Exactly! > > On Dec 13, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >>> Frankly, I think that the la

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread sebb
On 13 December 2011 14:25, Ted Dunning wrote: > Frankly, I think that the lack of generics in commons components drives > away more users than having java 1.4 compatibility retains. > > I personally won't incorporate any non-genericized components if I can help > it.  There are a few exceptions wh

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Phil Steitz
We have code close to ready for release that is fully genericised. Let's do that. On Dec 13, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> Frankly, I think that the lack of generics in commons components drives >> away more users than

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > Frankly, I think that the lack of generics in commons components drives > away more users than having java 1.4 compatibility retains. > > I personally won't incorporate any non-genericized components if I can help > it.  There are a few excepti

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Ted Dunning
Frankly, I think that the lack of generics in commons components drives away more users than having java 1.4 compatibility retains. I personally won't incorporate any non-genericized components if I can help it. There are a few exceptions where I might like math libraries (oh wait, commons-math a

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Gary Gregory
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Phil Steitz wrote: > Lots of applications depend on the 1.x branch as it is now. Hello, What does it mean for an app to depend on a specific branch in SVN? Do those apps depend on 1.x SNAPSHOT releases? Do they download the code and compile it? Which is where

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Phil Steitz
Lots of applications depend on the 1.x branch as it is now. We really can't just drop support. At least we shouldnt, IMO. What you are proposing is a third release line. As I have stated before, we are having a hard time getting timely bug fix releases out now with just *one* release line.

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Gary Gregory
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:01 AM, sebb wrote: > On 13 December 2011 11:36, Simone Tripodi > wrote: > >> > >> Generics would help to ensure suitable types were being used, but> > would do nothing to prevent the subtle threading bugs that misusing a> > protected field can cause.>> To my mind, it wo

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Simone Tripodi
>> But what is the point?> Do generics really make enough difference to be >> worth spending the time on?> we've had that feature available for more than one year[1] (see bottom page, generics added on 11.10.2010 23:39:15) and not released yet, when proposing the 2.0-beta1[2] the community reject

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread sebb
On 13 December 2011 11:36, Simone Tripodi wrote: >> >> Generics would help to ensure suitable types were being used, but> would do >> nothing to prevent the subtle threading bugs that misusing a> protected >> field can cause.>> To my mind, it would paper over a few cracks, whilst >> leaving gap

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Simone Tripodi
> > Generics would help to ensure suitable types were being used, but> would do > nothing to prevent the subtle threading bugs that misusing a> protected field > can cause.>> To my mind, it would paper over a few cracks, whilst leaving > gaping> holes elsewhere.> we just voted a new maintenance

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread sebb
On 13 December 2011 05:20, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Dec 13, 2011, at 0:12, Phil Steitz wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: >> >>> Hi All: >>> >>> We keep on maintaining 1.5.x, that is very good :) >>> >>> But, I for one, am tired of not having generics and do

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-13 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi Gary! that's something similar I proposed time ago[1] - exactly May 5th - for the same need of having Generics, but I didn't have succes :) Since we are in do-ocracy if you intend to work on it you have my full support - I already applied Generics twice on Pool, I can do it for the third - in t

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-12 Thread Gary Gregory
On Dec 13, 2011, at 0:12, Phil Steitz wrote: > > > > > On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > >> Hi All: >> >> We keep on maintaining 1.5.x, that is very good :) >> >> But, I for one, am tired of not having generics and do not feel like >> rushing 2.0 just to get them. > >> > I think

Re: [pool] 1.6 proposal

2011-12-12 Thread Phil Steitz
On Dec 12, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > Hi All: > > We keep on maintaining 1.5.x, that is very good :) > > But, I for one, am tired of not having generics and do not feel like > rushing 2.0 just to get them. > I think we are actually pretty close on 2.0. I think it's best to p