On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:53, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > Regardless of the build method a project uses (plain Ant, Maven or > Centipede), IMO it would be cool if there were only one project descriptor.
+1 I am basically in a hold position because I am too lazy to adopt something only to have to redo it in the future. > Jason, Sam, what can we do to have a single enhanced descriptor from the > Gump and Maven one? > > There would be two DTDs: the simple one, with Gump only stuff, and a > detailed one (that includes the first one), that has extra definitions that > can be used by Maven and Centipede and whatever else will come. I would prefer that things get incrementally added to the gump descriptor and that they have at least an obvious use for gump. For instance a few days ago I made the suggestion that mailing lists and <src> tags be added to gump. Both of these things would be of benefit to gump and to the other projects. ie Gump could use the <src/> attribute to automate javadoc generation (as requested a few days ago), jxr stuff (as done in alexandria and now in maven) and whatever else you can do with source. Then maven could use this to do the compilation aswell and do its other things (like run jdepend, checkstyle and whatever). mailing lists are common to both maven and forrest and gump could also use them somewhere on its pages I am sure etc. If lots of little steps like this are made then gradually a universal project descriptor will hopefully arise and it wont have to be revised too much in the future etc. Thoughts? BTW why is it forrest and not forest? -- Cheers, Pete ---------------------------------------------------------------- Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. -- Perlis's Programming Proverb #58, SIGPLAN Notices, Sept. 1982 ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
