Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 40295 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 00:09:01 -0000 Received: from exchange.sun.com (192.18.33.10) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 00:09:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 23764 invoked by uid 97); 14 Aug 2003 00:11:49 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-commons-dev@nagoya.betaversion.org Received: (qmail 23756 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 00:11:48 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by nagoya.betaversion.org with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 00:11:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 40071 invoked by uid 500); 14 Aug 2003 00:08:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 40058 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 00:08:59 -0000 Received: from umbongo.flamefew.net (64.253.103.114) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Aug 2003 00:08:59 -0000 Received: by umbongo.flamefew.net (Postfix on Linux (i386), from userid 500) id C78F019C6; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:08:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by umbongo.flamefew.net (Postfix on Linux (i386)) with ESMTP id C66C4DBB for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:08:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 20:08:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Henri Yandell X-X-Sender: hen@umbongo.flamefew.net To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: [lang] StringUtils misspelled method names? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Change commited. I'm not sure how much javadoc we do for deprecated methods. I can happily c+p some javadoc but have done the normal simple deprecated/link line rather than repeat the javadoc all over again. I've also added the following to the DEVELOPERS-GUIDE: ==========

Language used in code/comments

It has been decided to casually standardize on US-English. To avoid misplaced jeers of 'americanisation', the people making this decision largely write in non-US-English. However, it's not something to get worked up about. Lots of spelling differences will creep in all over.

======= Trying to strike the right level of "the decision has been made" and "don't turn into a spelling-fascist". Hen On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Henri Yandell wrote: > > The difficulty comes in what you define the project as. If it's Lang, then > we generally don't care. If it's Jakarta, then I suspect there's a strong > enough pro-US vote. > > As none of the non-US-english writing people so far have really cared, > I'll go ahead and commit a change. Deprecating the old spelling and > introducing the new spelling. > > Hen > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Brett Porter wrote: > > > There has just been a debate on the Linux Kernel mailing list about this - > > actually a lot of that code is in British English. > > > > I say it should be whatever the majority of developers are comfortable with > > and it must be consistent across the project. Everyone else can press > > Ctrl-space in their IDE :) US English sounds fine in general - the rest of > > the world is usually aware of how the spellings differ (although the reverse > > is not always the case :) > > > > Cheers, > > Brett > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Simon Kitching [mailto:simon@ecnetwork.co.nz] > > > Sent: Thursday, 14 August 2003 9:30 AM > > > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > > > Subject: Re: [lang] StringUtils misspelled method names? > > > > > > > > > As a user of, rather than contributor to, lang, I agree with Stephen. > > > > > > While also a "Queen's English" user, the convention for > > > programming libraries is clearly established as US English. > > > All the java standard libraries use this convention, so it > > > seems inconsistent to use other spelling elsewhere. I bet C++ > > > libraries, Gnome libraries, etc. also use US English > > > spellings for public methods. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 11:23, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > > > > Although I am English and use the correct English spelling, I would > > > > probably prefer these to be spelt as US english. > > > > > > > > Why? Well practically all computer driven spelling is US, eg. > > > > capitalize (US English) not capitalise (correct English) color (US > > > > English) not colour (correct English) > > > > > > > > If we are to change them, then this is the time. The [lang] 2.0 > > > > release is the tidy up release involving deprecations. I > > > don't expect > > > > or want further deprecations in 3.0. > > > > > > > > Having said that, I can't work up the will to actually make the > > > > change. So > > > > +1 if someone wants to make the effort and supply a patch. > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org