Peter Donald wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to unify the repositories together to make it easier for us to
> manage. I was actually waiting for a cjan/jjan system to emerge but as yet
> no one has picked up that ball so I figure we may aswell do it now.
>
> Currently we have tools/ directories scattered across every CVS repo and I
> would like to merge them all into one in jakarta-avalon/tools/. The reason
> for this is that a few "features" in our build system caused bugs to appear
> when the tools didn't exactly match up.
+1
>
> There is also the issue of generated jars (ie logkit.jar, avalon-*,
> phoenix-* etc). Currently we have to manually copy across them all to get
> uptodate version etc. So what I would like to do is specify a directory
>
> jakarta-avalon/../cjan (or jakarta-avalon/../workspace) where the latest
> released (or maybe built???) jars will be copied to on install target. This
> can be overidden as appropriate (ie I currently generate to
> /opt/apps/cjan). This will mean less jars in CVS and hopefully less
> inconsistencies.
+1 for principle.
An alternative default directory for these jars could follow tomcat/
servlet practice and build/dist to directories at the same level as
jakarta-avalon etc
>
> The arguements against this are generally;
> * This means you can not download a single repository, cd into dir and
> build automatically. You have to download them all. I don't see this as an
> issue now (it may become an issue when phoenix enters beta state though).
> When/if it becomes an issue we can simply update relevent project to store
> binaries in CVS again
But anyone using cornerstone or phoenix needs avalon (at least).
> * building against latest of everything (and thus not stable). This
> shouldn't be an issue as framework+logkit is mostly stable now and
> hopefully excalibur will be soon. (Besides we have gump to warn us of
> issues ;]).
Go for it.
Charles
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