Adding constant for line.separator and friends

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 11.11.2009 22:48, Martin Buchholz schrieb:
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> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:46, Stephen Colebourne 
> <scolebourne at joda.org <mailto:scolebourne at joda.org>> wrote:
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>     Martin Buchholz wrote:
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>         On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:10, Ulf Zibis <Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
>         <mailto:Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de> <mailto:Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
>         <mailto:Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de>>> wrote:
>            At least, IMO, fileSeparator() and pathSeparator() would
>         belong to
>            java.io.File or java.nio.file.FileSystem.
>         Those would have been better names,
>         but at this point they are not worth adding.
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>     I don't follow - why are they not worth adding now? 
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> Because java.io.File already provides the functionality users need.
> Not in the best way - as fields instead of methods, and
> only the first char of the system property.  But it's not broken enough
> to be worth fixing by providing a slightly better API.

Sorry for not have checked that (misleaded by request from 
Weijun.Wang at Sun.COM 46 hours ago)

> IMO, of course.
>  
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>     Becuase they should have been in JDK 1.0? Because JDK 7 is about
>     to release? Some other reason? How and who is deciding?
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> it's a hard problem, and one that Sun/JCP/OpenJDK still needs to address.

I know this problem, see:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100091, 100092, 100095, 
100098, 1000104, 1000105, 1000107 and plenty patches from others.
Most of them not even just have sponsors :-(
Seems to be work for garbage. Only few externals have chance for 
contribution, mostly ex-employees from Sun.

> I guess right now folks are waiting for the Oracle acquisition.

Hopefully!

-Ulf