AbstractFileRepository numbering and James

We have a long outstanding issue with Cornerstone's AbstractFileRepository
that most of us bypass by means using database stores instead.  We really
should work with you folks to resolve it.  I just asked Iwasa Kazmi, who
posted a patch to james-dev for it today, to raise the issue here.

ref: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8839


http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[email protected]
.org&msgNo=5835

As it turns out, Iwasa-san has done some previously:

ref:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[email protected]
e.org&msgId=389748

Peter Donald replied that the repository numbering basically looked broken
to him, but there are no further replies in the archives, either in
avalon-dev@ where it started, or avalon-apps-dev@ where Peter cross-posted.

ref:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[email protected]
e.org&msgNo=12041

I'like to see this resolved, this time around.

	--- Noel