> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Wow...you are fast in conclusion. > > These projects do not represent at all a best case example. > > oh really? Yes. Otherwise I'm in a dream about managing all the modules I have here. :-) > > They just represent a sample of entropy since they are > absolutely not > > coordinated. > > except of course that gump runs them. This of course implies > that they have > reached a high enough quality to be included based on their > own merit or > because another project chooses to depend on them. > > Oh and did I mention - Sam regularly sends patches to all > these projects to > keep them compatible with ant and as uptodate as possible > (because it breaks gump if they are not). > No - no coordination here at all. There is no coordination between projects. Don't even tell me that 6 months ago Xalan and Xerces were synchronized it is not even true. AFAIK Sam is working alone on this and do his best fighting against everybody who does not agree about his vision. He's doing an incredible job keeping uptodate with the information that he is getting in all mailing lists, but I do no think that every project keeps him informed about future changes and so on. People are just starting to get used to it. GUMP represent the latest status on development since they are always on HEAD. This is VERY useful information but it is in no case an integration build. This is different. I'm using similar information for the nightly builds here they are always on LATEST for all modules. This gives very important information when all these modules are supposed to meet at some point and thus need to be stabilized. > > They have nothing in commons...It's not like all these > modules were made > > from the ground up to work together and therefore use a > common set of third > > party and all synchronized together with defined milestone. > > and whats that got to do with the price of cheese? eh, I just mean that they don't have to use a common set of well defined libs and stick to it. How do you want to integrate successfully a product in a shop where all modules use a different version of the same lib ? This would be a nightmare for every build engineer, QA engineer and software engineer. No cheese involved in there :-) Stephane -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
