[IO-65] move Location and Locator to commons io

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Fix Version/s: 3.x
• Component/s: Utilities

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: Other

• Bugzilla Id: 35818
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ralf Hauser
• Created: 22/Jul/05 00:56
• Updated: 26/Dec/23 13:46
• Resolved: 26/Dec/23 13:46

Description

The excellent platform-independence provided by the trio

• org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Locator
• org.apache.tools.ant.Location.Location(String fileName)
• org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils
  is certainly useful for more than just ant.

RFE: move to commons io.

Thx to Matt who pointed out in Bug 35776 that there is already a
org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils, so for that one, I guess the suggestion is
rather "merge" the two since the ant-one is way more powerful, especially with
its "normalize(final String path)" method, etc.