8 Apr
2007
8 Apr
'07
10:18 p.m.
Vincent Massol wrote:
I'm not I would have used the word "plagued" which has a negative
connotation... I would rather have said: "thanks to the effort of others
in OSS we have been able to develop XWiki to a level we wouldn't have
been able to reach otherwise... This allows us to reduce our maintenance
efforts, our documentation efforts and our testing efforts..." :-)
Now if you notice 2 libraries used in XWiki that do the same thing let
us know so that we can all decide if we want to remove one and only use
one. I'd be in favor of that wherever possible.
I've noticed a few places myself where I think the wrong library was
chosen IMO (like when we use Jakarta ECS for something completely
unrelated). There are also places where the choice was historic: like
using ORO when the Regex is now in JDK 1.4 (this has already been
identified).
Other examples are Xerces and Xalan, which are also included in JDK. I
think that you also have duplicate cache libraries. I can take some time
to analyze this after I finish playing with curernt topic (Kerberos).
Just to clarify: I'm working with SVN so I don't know are all these
libraries actually distributed.
When I bump into again, I'll drop a message.
However, I would rather use
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/io/api-release/org/apache/commons/io/IOUt…
than code it ourselves... Sounds safer, shorter, less maintenance,
etc to me... :)
If it adds value. I think that XWiki is plagued with different
libraries doing the same thing or adding small amount of
functionality. This makes it harder to analyse. Another place
where to avoid local encoding: some source code files
contain French characters, which are messed up on non-8859-1 platforms.
Ah we need to track these down. Could you please let us know which files?