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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by Ryan McKinley <ry...@gmail.com> on 2013/01/14 21:00:46 UTC

[VFS] Java 7 Path plans?

Are there any plans for VFS to integrate with the Java 7 Path API?

I stumbled across:
http://truevfs.java.net/

It looks interesting, but I like the wider support in commons VFS.

thanks
ryan

Re: [VFS] Java 7 Path plans?

Posted by Ryan McKinley <ry...@gmail.com>.

Thanks Gary -- ya, manpower is always an issue!

I'll poke around and see what makes sense -- I just wanted to make sure I'm
not duplicating an effort that is already underway somewhere.

Thanks
Ryan





On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, that's an interesting question.
>
> It's really a man-power issue.
>
> One project I envision could be to port all of the [vfs] providers to the
> new Java 7 framework. That is no small undertaking. I can imagine a "VFS
> 3.0" or "7.0" that would only deliver Java 7 file system providers and no
> framework (like we currently do). That would break with the current code
> base as I imaging it might be too "hoopy" (as in having to jump through too
> many hoops, I just made that up) to re-use some core code between a Java 7
> provider that delegates to said core and the current VFS framework that
> would delegate to the same core. That would be ideal, but I'm not sure how
> nice or needed that would be.
>
> Right now, I'd like to release a [vfs] 2.1 as there are a LOT of changes in
> trunk since 2.0.
>
> Like everybody else, I'm busy with a family, a job, and hobbies...
>
> All that being said, a house is built one brick at a time, so this could be
> started with one provier...
>
> Volunteers welcome!
>
> Gary
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Ryan McKinley <ry...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Are there any plans for VFS to integrate with the Java 7 Path API?
> >
> > I stumbled across:
> > http://truevfs.java.net/
> >
> > It looks interesting, but I like the wider support in commons VFS.
> >
> > thanks
> > ryan
> >
>
>
>
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Re: [VFS] Java 7 Path plans?

Posted by Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com>.

Well, that's an interesting question.

It's really a man-power issue.

One project I envision could be to port all of the [vfs] providers to the
new Java 7 framework. That is no small undertaking. I can imagine a "VFS
3.0" or "7.0" that would only deliver Java 7 file system providers and no
framework (like we currently do). That would break with the current code
base as I imaging it might be too "hoopy" (as in having to jump through too
many hoops, I just made that up) to re-use some core code between a Java 7
provider that delegates to said core and the current VFS framework that
would delegate to the same core. That would be ideal, but I'm not sure how
nice or needed that would be.

Right now, I'd like to release a [vfs] 2.1 as there are a LOT of changes in
trunk since 2.0.

Like everybody else, I'm busy with a family, a job, and hobbies...

All that being said, a house is built one brick at a time, so this could be
started with one provier...

Volunteers welcome!

Gary

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Ryan McKinley <ry...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are there any plans for VFS to integrate with the Java 7 Path API?
>
> I stumbled across:
> http://truevfs.java.net/
>
> It looks interesting, but I like the wider support in commons VFS.
>
> thanks
> ryan
>

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