[collections] Re: Port commons-collections to jdk1.5

[Chris Lambrou <ma...@chrislambrou.com>]

Ooops,

I thought I'd replied to the commons dev list, but Laurent's original 
e-mail had an explicit reply-to address set, so it went straight back to 
him instead. I'm posting this back to the commons-dev list for the sake 
of completeness.

Chris





Hi Laurent,

After an initial flurry of activity on the port, my personal 
circumstances have changed somewhat, and I'm finding it difficult to 
spend much time on it. Hopefully this is a temporary setback, though it 
seems like forever since I've been able to do any serious development 
work, alas. Rest assured that the port hasn't died. Indeed, a couple of 
other developers have also joined in the effort, and any further 
assistance is most welcome.

Currently, collections15 is hosted on SourceForge, and so lies outside 
of the direct control of Apache. The aim is to substantially complete 
the port at SF before trying to persuade a current Jakarta commons 
committer to oversee its migration into the sandbox once it reached 
alpha or beta status. I haven't looked at the state of the source 
currently in CVS, as I've been on holiday in Las Vegas for the last few 
weeks and have only just returned. It may be suffering a few minor 
teething problems, so may indeed require a few minor tweaks to persuade 
it to compile. I'll rectify this shortly, probably over the weekend, as 
I've a lot of day job work to catch up on at the moment.

The anonymous CVS access provided by SF is read-only. If you want to 
start committing, you need to register as a developer with SF, work your 
way through the whole secure CVS access instructions provided on the SF 
site, and then get me to add you to the project's developer list. Unless 
you're already a Jakarta commons committer, I hope you won't be offended 
if we don't immediately add you to the project's developer list. For 
now, I think that the best way to contribute would be to start providing 
implementations of some of the interfaces that haven't yet been worked 
on by any of the other collections15 developers. If you e-mail your work 
to one of us, we can quickly review it and add it to CVS for you before 
deciding to add you to the developer list.

Thank you very much for offering to help.

Chris


Laurent Brucher wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I am sending you this email because I assume you're still working on the
>port of commons-collections to jdk1.5.
>I'm interested in it and am willing to contribute.
>I've grabbed the source from CVS (as of 2005/4/13) and updated them so they
>compile. I was going to continue porting
>more stuff but I'm not sure what the development status is on this project
>and don't feel like doing what's being/been already done ;-)
>I'm not familiar with the process of changes and so forth for the
>apache/commons stuff, but I guess I could probably help somewhere.
>
>Thanks for letting me know if I can be of any help.
>
>Laurent Brucher.
>
>
>
>  
>



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Re: [collections] Re: Port commons-collections to jdk1.5

[gold <de...@samizdatdigital.org>]

sorry. he's a contributor, not a committer.

jon

gold wrote:
> no problem. i have a friend who is a commons committer. i'll see if he 
> has any time for it.
> 
> jon
> 
> Chris Lambrou wrote:
> 
>> Jon,
>>
>> Sorry for the late reply. I've been away on business for a few days, 
>> so am playing catch up. After the recent appearance of the 
>> collections.sf.net project, there are now two projects that attempt to 
>> provide a Java 5.0 port of commons-collections. Since the duplication 
>> of work seems a waste, current plans are to merge the two projects, 
>> with the ultimate intention of bringing the combined result into 
>> Jakarta commons, presumably into the sand box. This later step, 
>> however, is subject to the availability and willingness of an existing 
>> commons committer to oversee this, since non of the developers from 
>> either SourceForge project are commons commiters.
>>
>> Sorry there's been no activity on the SourceForge forums. We simply 
>> used SF to provide CVS hosting (due to the aforementioned problem that 
>> non of the collections15 developers are commons commiters), and 
>> haven't really embraced all of the additional facilities that SF 
>> provides. All developer communication to data has either been through 
>> this commons-dev list or via private e-mail between the project 
>> developers.
>>
>> For now, commons-dev seems to be the correct place to discuss 
>> collections15 in particular and the Java 5.0 collections port in general.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> jon gold wrote:
>>
>>> chris -- are you still running this? there's no activity on the 
>>> sourceforge forums from the project page, so i'm not sure if this is 
>>> the correct place to discuss collections15. i'm getting it built and 
>>> up to speed, and would like to start working on it some, but need a 
>>> little help in figuring out what's open to work on, and also how to 
>>> run a single test case (test:single -Dtestcase=...) without getting 
>>> an InstantiationException).
>>
>>
>>
>> I find that the site:generate task runs the unit tests successfully, 
>> and I use my IDE to run individual tests. I've also just tried to run 
>> individual tests using Maven, also without success. I'm afraid I'm not 
>> all that familiar with the intricacies of Maven, so don't really have 
>> any pointers to offer you. Sorry!
>>
>>>
>>> jon
>>>
>>
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Re: [collections] Re: Port commons-collections to jdk1.5

[gold <de...@samizdatdigital.org>]

no problem. i have a friend who is a commons committer. i'll see if he 
has any time for it.

jon

Chris Lambrou wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> Sorry for the late reply. I've been away on business for a few days, so 
> am playing catch up. After the recent appearance of the 
> collections.sf.net project, there are now two projects that attempt to 
> provide a Java 5.0 port of commons-collections. Since the duplication of 
> work seems a waste, current plans are to merge the two projects, with 
> the ultimate intention of bringing the combined result into Jakarta 
> commons, presumably into the sand box. This later step, however, is 
> subject to the availability and willingness of an existing commons 
> committer to oversee this, since non of the developers from either 
> SourceForge project are commons commiters.
> 
> Sorry there's been no activity on the SourceForge forums. We simply used 
> SF to provide CVS hosting (due to the aforementioned problem that non of 
> the collections15 developers are commons commiters), and haven't really 
> embraced all of the additional facilities that SF provides. All 
> developer communication to data has either been through this commons-dev 
> list or via private e-mail between the project developers.
> 
> For now, commons-dev seems to be the correct place to discuss 
> collections15 in particular and the Java 5.0 collections port in general.
> 
> Chris
> 
> jon gold wrote:
> 
>> chris -- are you still running this? there's no activity on the 
>> sourceforge forums from the project page, so i'm not sure if this is 
>> the correct place to discuss collections15. i'm getting it built and 
>> up to speed, and would like to start working on it some, but need a 
>> little help in figuring out what's open to work on, and also how to 
>> run a single test case (test:single -Dtestcase=...) without getting an 
>> InstantiationException).
> 
> 
> I find that the site:generate task runs the unit tests successfully, and 
> I use my IDE to run individual tests. I've also just tried to run 
> individual tests using Maven, also without success. I'm afraid I'm not 
> all that familiar with the intricacies of Maven, so don't really have 
> any pointers to offer you. Sorry!
> 
>>
>> jon
>>
> 
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Re: [collections] Re: Port commons-collections to jdk1.5

[Chris Lambrou <ma...@chrislambrou.com>]

Jon,

Sorry for the late reply. I've been away on business for a few days, so 
am playing catch up. After the recent appearance of the 
collections.sf.net project, there are now two projects that attempt to 
provide a Java 5.0 port of commons-collections. Since the duplication of 
work seems a waste, current plans are to merge the two projects, with 
the ultimate intention of bringing the combined result into Jakarta 
commons, presumably into the sand box. This later step, however, is 
subject to the availability and willingness of an existing commons 
committer to oversee this, since non of the developers from either 
SourceForge project are commons commiters.

Sorry there's been no activity on the SourceForge forums. We simply used 
SF to provide CVS hosting (due to the aforementioned problem that non of 
the collections15 developers are commons commiters), and haven't really 
embraced all of the additional facilities that SF provides. All 
developer communication to data has either been through this commons-dev 
list or via private e-mail between the project developers.

For now, commons-dev seems to be the correct place to discuss 
collections15 in particular and the Java 5.0 collections port in general.

Chris

jon gold wrote:

> chris -- are you still running this? there's no activity on the 
> sourceforge forums from the project page, so i'm not sure if this is 
> the correct place to discuss collections15. i'm getting it built and 
> up to speed, and would like to start working on it some, but need a 
> little help in figuring out what's open to work on, and also how to 
> run a single test case (test:single -Dtestcase=...) without getting an 
> InstantiationException).

I find that the site:generate task runs the unit tests successfully, and 
I use my IDE to run individual tests. I've also just tried to run 
individual tests using Maven, also without success. I'm afraid I'm not 
all that familiar with the intricacies of Maven, so don't really have 
any pointers to offer you. Sorry!

>
> jon
>

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Re: [collections] Re: Port commons-collections to jdk1.5

[jon gold <de...@samizdatdigital.org>]

chris -- are you still running this? there's no activity on the 
sourceforge forums from the project page, so i'm not sure if this is the 
correct place to discuss collections15. i'm getting it built and up to 
speed, and would like to start working on it some, but need a little 
help in figuring out what's open to work on, and also how to run a 
single test case (test:single -Dtestcase=...) without getting an 
InstantiationException).

jon

Chris Lambrou wrote:
> Ooops,
> 
> I thought I'd replied to the commons dev list, but Laurent's original 
> e-mail had an explicit reply-to address set, so it went straight back to 
> him instead. I'm posting this back to the commons-dev list for the sake 
> of completeness.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Laurent,
> 
> After an initial flurry of activity on the port, my personal 
> circumstances have changed somewhat, and I'm finding it difficult to 
> spend much time on it. Hopefully this is a temporary setback, though it 
> seems like forever since I've been able to do any serious development 
> work, alas. Rest assured that the port hasn't died. Indeed, a couple of 
> other developers have also joined in the effort, and any further 
> assistance is most welcome.
> 
> Currently, collections15 is hosted on SourceForge, and so lies outside 
> of the direct control of Apache. The aim is to substantially complete 
> the port at SF before trying to persuade a current Jakarta commons 
> committer to oversee its migration into the sandbox once it reached 
> alpha or beta status. I haven't looked at the state of the source 
> currently in CVS, as I've been on holiday in Las Vegas for the last few 
> weeks and have only just returned. It may be suffering a few minor 
> teething problems, so may indeed require a few minor tweaks to persuade 
> it to compile. I'll rectify this shortly, probably over the weekend, as 
> I've a lot of day job work to catch up on at the moment.
> 
> The anonymous CVS access provided by SF is read-only. If you want to 
> start committing, you need to register as a developer with SF, work your 
> way through the whole secure CVS access instructions provided on the SF 
> site, and then get me to add you to the project's developer list. Unless 
> you're already a Jakarta commons committer, I hope you won't be offended 
> if we don't immediately add you to the project's developer list. For 
> now, I think that the best way to contribute would be to start providing 
> implementations of some of the interfaces that haven't yet been worked 
> on by any of the other collections15 developers. If you e-mail your work 
> to one of us, we can quickly review it and add it to CVS for you before 
> deciding to add you to the developer list.
> 
> Thank you very much for offering to help.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> Laurent Brucher wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am sending you this email because I assume you're still working on the
>> port of commons-collections to jdk1.5.
>> I'm interested in it and am willing to contribute.
>> I've grabbed the source from CVS (as of 2005/4/13) and updated them so 
>> they
>> compile. I was going to continue porting
>> more stuff but I'm not sure what the development status is on this 
>> project
>> and don't feel like doing what's being/been already done ;-)
>> I'm not familiar with the process of changes and so forth for the
>> apache/commons stuff, but I guess I could probably help somewhere.
>>
>> Thanks for letting me know if I can be of any help.
>>
>> Laurent Brucher.
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> 
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