On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 19:24, Sam Ruby wrote: > Facinating thread. Sorry I missed most of it... as I was on the road. > Anyway...contrary to some of the statements here, see > > http://jakarta.apache.org/gump/faq.html#10 > > In my ideal world, there would be declarative elements in the build.xml > files themselves (not separate project descriptors) that could be used to > determine the correct dependencies.
If I remember correctly you heartily agreed that the dependencies should be stored outside of the build file, this was about a week ago on either this list or the turbine list. How might your declarative elements look in your ideal build file? > I do believe that it is important to keep on top of cross project > dependencies. I suppose it's merely a dispute over frequency. I occasionally, say every two weeks, do something like a Gump build to eyeball things. > Not just weekly or so, but nearly continuously. My > experience is that if you let go for a while that it becomes harder and > harder to catch up. This being said, I do welcome the thought of others > testing other combinations. See > > http://jakarta.apache.org/gump/faq.html#7 > > Finally, I do believe that even with separate project descriptors, the > current gump approach can scale - if more people contribute patches to > projects that they care about and become committers themselves. As this is > now happening, I was wondering if it was time to revisit > > http://jakarta.apache.org/gump/faq.html#11 If this is for a general alexandria replacement then I would also like to share my enthusiasm and place Maven up on the block as well. I believe Scott has a tool as well. Or maybe we can combine our efforts now that Scott and I have something to show and contribute. > - Sam Ruby > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
