"Morrison, John" wrote:
>
> I think that getting all the projects to conform would be an impossible
> task. People just don't like having this sort of thing imposed on them -
> even if it is 'the best' and, for want of a better term, 'standard'.
>
> Good luck if you try to persue it though - it would make life easier! ;)
I guess my thinking was this - I agree that it won't be easy, nor will
everyone want to play.
But if people start using ant for builds, and ant + jjar makes it easy
to specify and ensure that dependencies are present and up to date w/o
each project having to either a) maintain a working set in CVS or b)
write docs and answer endless questions from users about where, how and
what to get, then I think there is a compelling reason to do it...
For the projects that don't want to (and of course, there are projects
outside of jakarta that we would want to support with the jjar
repository until they wanted to participate), we could simply keep a
'proxy' repository descriptor for each one of them. Sam & co. do this
already within gump - making it external means that jjar and other tools
can access as well.
geir
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, 09 August 2001 2:49 pm
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [gump] normalizing project descriptors
> >
> >
> > Quick note...
> >
> > One solution to the problem of dependencies is to push this
> > out of gump,
> > and into the projects themselves.
> >
> > For example, if each project had in CVS in a well known location (such
> > as the root of the project) a dependency descriptor, then it could be
> > both used by gump to determine project dependencies, and jjar
> > in a build
> > to do the same.
> >
> > Also, it takes the burden off of gump to keep up, since a project will
> > do that anyway...
> >
> > geir
> >
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