I'm +1. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/
Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/08/2003 06:07:47 PM: > > [Cross-posting] > > John Farrel has had lots of trouble trying to get the released version of > Jelly to build. So I figured I'd run through the instructions Jelly gives: > > Downloaded the jar. > > Running 'ant' as the README says. It's getting lots of jars, but failing > on jms, xsdlib and jdbc. Then of course it dies. Running maven normally > with 'maven' would be no different. > > This is with Maven 0.7, which I suspect is what this version of Jelly was > created against [or 0.4+]. I find that 0.4->0.7 of Maven are fairly > compatible, but that 0.8 can hit problems in compatibility. > > So the basic problem here is that Jelly hasn't been released since July > 2002 [and is still at beta 3]. The source is not buildable for beta-3. > > Looking at CVS, beta-4-SNAPSHOT is what is being worked upon. It no longer > relies upon xsdlib, jdbc and jms. Checking it out and running 'maven' as > the README now suggests gives me a file not found for ../project.xml. > Always a pain :) Grabbing that and LICENSE.txt which will also be needed, > it builds happily. > > Jelly has no nightly build, which is odd as most of Commons does have a > nightly build. > > It seems to me that Jelly should push out beta-4 if only so that a > buildable version is out there. Of course, there have been 689 commits > since that release, so I imagine the codebase might not be ready to walk > out the door. > > Hen > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, John Farrell wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 04:50 pm, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > I've found that the speed of Maven can get frustrating at times. > > > > Actually, the speed of maven didn't worry me. It's just all the > mucking around > > using cvsgrab, trying to figure out how to get jelly without all of commons, > > searching wikis and websites, searching through code to find out what is > > really going on, and so on. > > > > > Could you let me know which particular jelly source download you grabbed? > > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/commons-jelly/distributions/ > > > > I know I tried the commons-jelly-1.0-beta-3-src.tar.gz at least once, maybe > > the zip as well. Silly me thought that the old modification dates meant the > > product was stable. To get to that page, you go to > > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jelly/ > > > > and click on Download, so I really expected it to be up to date. > Thanks Henri. > > > > John > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
