afaik the first steps of maven and forrest were made here too.. Mvgr, Martin
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 17:15, Steve Donie wrote: > > No one ever seems to reply to these messages. > > The goals of Alexandria are admirable, but the tool as advertised has never > existed in any mature form. From the original Alexandria project there > emerged several proposals, the most successful of which seems to be the Gump > project. Most of what is available now through CVS is Gump related. There is > no active work happening on the 'Alexandria' project per se, although there > is work to try to resurrect some of its parts. See the attached email for > the most recent status. > > You may also want to look into projects with similar goals: > Maven: http://jakarta.apache.org/maven/ > Centipede: http://www.krysalis.org/index.shtml > > -----Original Message----- > From: Amarish Khopkar [mailto:akhopkar@;captechventures.com] > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 10:02 AM > To: Alexandria Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Trying to obtain Alexandria > > Dear Developers, > > I have had a chance to do research on your Alexandria project, and I must > say that it is an impressive tool. It appears to be a godsend to any open > source development environment aiming to maintain versioning, and > centralized source, javadoc and build control on a project basis. I find it > to be an ideal solution to our current deployment system, but have been > unable to obtain a working release of it. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but the alexandria-legacy.zip from the repository > appears to be outdated, and is throwing java.lang.VerifyErrors. And the one > that downloads from the "Use Alexandria" hyperlink of the alexandria > subproject doesn't appear to have an alexandria script and seems to be old. > In addition, it appears that every subproject except Alexandria appears to > have Release, Nightly builds, but Alexandria appears to have none of these. > > I would really appreciate if you could guide me in obtaining a working > release of Alexandria. > > Thank You. > > Amarish > > ---- > > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexandria Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: New Alexandria Status > Date: 18 Sep 2002 06:12:46 -0500 > > I've finished the first step of the Alexandria reworking. > > In the alexandria module, you can now find the following projects: > > - alexandria family (documentation): > - javasrc: java source code 2 html conversion with xrefs > > - gump family (build) > - gump > - jenny (the xml descriptor merger) > - shrimpfactory (where the project descriptors are) > - bubba (descriptor editor) > - viprom (still in early stage, to access > the gump descriptor info from ant embed proposal) > > > STATUSES > > - xsltdoc: it has been donated but uses Sun doclet code; needs someone > to take it and replace the sun classes (I don't have time ATM) > - Javasrc: works and is ready to be used. > - bubba: works but will need a DTD overview > - jenny: the buildfile builds the jenny.jar > - shrimpfactory: the buildfile can use jenny to create merge.xml > - viprom: unusable > - gump: eliminated the gen scripts, it now works like this: > - user runs ant in the gump dir > - it calls the buildfile in shrimpfactory > - which calls jenny > - and merges with -Dshrimpfactory.gump.descriptor=workspace2use > - it runs the stylesheets on the merge.xml > - the scripts are put in the gump bin dir > - user invokes the needed script from the gump build dir > > In essence, make your profile in shrimpfactory, go in gump, run ant > -Dshrimpfactory.gump.descriptor=workspace2use, then ./bin/update.sh, > ./bin/build.sh ... > > Can we start thinking of finally ditching the proposal dir stuff? > We will need quite a few updates in the docs, etc, but let me know what > you think. > > Thanks. > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:alexandria-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:alexandria-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > ---- > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:alexandria-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:alexandria-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:alexandria-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:alexandria-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
