> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 09 August 2001 3:05 pm
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gump] normalizing project descriptors
>
>
> "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.
I agree - it would be best, but I can forsee us having to maintain a proxy
repository for everyone else...
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