Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 10789 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2004 17:40:44 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 14 Jun 2004 17:40:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 15122 invoked by uid 500); 14 Jun 2004 17:40:51 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-commons-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 15088 invoked by uid 500); 14 Jun 2004 17:40:50 -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 15049 invoked by uid 99); 14 Jun 2004 17:40:50 -0000 Received: from [209.237.227.194] (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (209.237.227.194) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.27.1) with SMTP; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:40:50 -0700 Received: (qmail 10646 invoked by uid 1339); 14 Jun 2004 17:40:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 2004 17:40:28 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 10:40:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Cooper To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [vfs][all][poll]regular expression library or jdk1.4 as minimum requirement In-Reply-To: <40CD6E87.8050909@apache.org> Message-ID: <20040614103847.D8080@minotaur.apache.org> References: <40CD6E87.8050909@apache.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Mario Ivankovits wrote: > Hello! > > A contribution of Rami Ojares brings in an "PatternSelector" to handle > ant-style patterns (/dir/**/file) to select files. > This class currently uses the jdk1.4 regular expression library. > > Now there are some questions how to handle the regexp thing: > [X] Avoid dependency to jdk1.4. > [ ] ... use jakarta-regexp > [X] ... use jakarta-oro > [ ] ... use the regexp bundled with ant. IIRC, DFS changed ORO recently so that JDK 1.4 could be used, if desired, so having VFS use ORO makes sense to me. -- Martin Cooper > But then we could not use the > PatternSelector without the ant.jar and have to move it to the vfs.ant > package. This powerfull thing might then not be useable for projects without > it. > > [ ] Dont bother and use jdk1.4 as minimum requirement (and its regexp) > > > Here is my vote: > [X] Dont bother and use jdk1.4 as minimum requirement > But i dont know which jdk version will be the most used and this is why i > started this poll. > IMHO at least for a sandbox component it should be permitted to use this > "bleeding edge ;-)" jdk-version. > > > PS: During writing of this poll, i noticed that there already two > dependencies to the jdk1.4, but those can be easily reverted. > > -- > Mario > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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