Gianugo Rabellino wrote:
>
> > The current situation is a little bit complicated. We have additional
> > components which are only included in the compilation if some
> > libraries are available during compilation.
> > In addition if these components are compilated there need to
> > be some entries either in the cocoon.xconf or in the sitemap.
> > This is partially done in the build, too.
> >
> > Now my problem is that if I look at the huge src directory, I
> > don't see which classes will be compilated, which are optional etc.
> > Even worse, there are classes in a package which are optional
> > and others in the same are not.
>
>
> Definitely the overall situation is a bit messy, yes.
>
> > Now this all could be made clearer with the following structure:
> >
> > src + core : The required classes which are always compiled
> > |
> > |
> > + opt - fop : FOP specific classes
> > - batik : The SVG stuff
> > - Xalan : Xalan specific implementations
> > etc.
>
>
> Sounds absolutely reasonable to me, as long as package names do not
> change (i.e. there is no org.apache.cocoon.optional package tree)
>
Yes.
>
> > In addition to the src in each opt/{component} directory,
> > this directory could contain a cocoon.xconf and sitemap.xmap
> > fragment.
>
>
> The problem here is that you don't know where the fragments have to be
> inserted in the main config or sitemap file. How about inserting XUpdate
> fragments and let Lexus edit the files? AFAIK there should be no
> licensing problems in including Lexus in the Cocoon dist.
>
Could you expand a little bit on this?
>
> > Now the build script knows the dependencies like if library
> > (=class) xyz is available, include directory /opt/xyz for
> > compilation and append the cocoon.xconf fragment and the
> > sitemap.xmap fragment to the configuration files.
>
>
> Again, the only problem that I see is that you can't just "append" the
> snippets and hope that they work...
>
Of course I didn't really mean "appending". The cocoon.xconf is rather easy,
as it is a list of definitions, so we could easily add this. The sitemap
is more complicated, but we could make use of the tool "st" currently
shipped with Cocoon as well.
Carsten
> Ciao,
>
> --
> Gianugo Rabellino
>
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