From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.
+1 > 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. Yes. > 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. Yes. And make it a modern STATUS file. > 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? I know I'm repeating myself, but the current forrext.xgump descriptor is a gump descriptor with these things added. http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/~checkout~/xml-forrest/forrest.xgump Is there something there that should be changed? What is missing? > BTW why is it forrest and not forest? forrest... gump... :-) -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
