[Commons-l] Improving Commonist (was Preferred licenses)

[Marcin Cieslak]

Jan Luca <jan at jans-seite.de> wrote:
> The revision is r70471
> (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/70471), URL:
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/tools/commonist-java/
> (ViewVC),
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/tools/commonist-java/ (SVN
> direct link)

I have added missing bits (so it actually compiles), and provided my login
problem patch to commonist 0.3.43 (naming it "0.3.44" now). 

This is now commited as r71919.

However, file re-upload (existing filename, same hash, previously
deleted file) still does not work with this version. 
Fixing this requires a bit of work. 

That said, however, I have my doubts about the future of the pure
Java version:

- it uses screen scrapping and is prone to changes of messages
  in Plattdüütsch (sic!) 
- original author uses a nice functional programming style
  (which I like) but this raises entry bar for the average
  Java programmer.

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