Berin Loritsch wrote:
I don't think that's a smart idea. We as avalon do not want to act as a central distribution point for third party packages, do we? Lots of software already uses the software; I don't know where they get jars but multiple provides seems silly.Doug Lea's Concurrency Utils are currently packaged in a jar file in the Excalibur event package. The manifest does not declare an extension name, version, implementation version or vendor id. This means that the jar will not function as an extension in environments that support extensions (e.g. Tomcat, Merlin, etc.). I think it is the only jar file that does not declare itself via its manifest - and I think we need to sort that out. My guess is that your probably the best person to handle sorting this one out.
He distributes it as a zip file of source with no build at all. Any manifest entries that we add are artificial. We can throw together a "douglea" project in Excalibur that exists to download the latest source and automatically compile and update the JAR with proper manifest entries if you would like.
one provider I know: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/concurrent/jars/
GUMP also uses some kind of jar from somewhere already:
http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/latest/module_dougLea.html
I suggest we standardise on the one at the ibiblio repo.
cheers,
- Leo
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