Magic fans may be interested in checking out the link provided by Roger Day concerning a spec dealing with 'installable units'. I haven't read though it yet but a quick glance suggests that this maybe relevant to both magic and some of the things we are doing in repo.
Cheers, Steve. -----Original Message----- From: roger day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 15:59 To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: pros and cons! Importance: High On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:40:27 +0200, Stephen McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: roger day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:53 AM > > To: Ant Users List > > Subject: Re: pros and cons! > > Importance: High > > > > Thanks for that, it looks interesting. At first sight, it seems that > > we're less wedded to any particular component model. All our > > distributions contain loosely connected components, few of which need > > classloaders. > > In the Avalon case they have around three levels of plugins (i.e. a > bootstrap loader loads plugin which itself loads plugins, etc. etc.). > Maintaining a complete build, test and runtime model for all of this > (currently 116 versioned projects) was simply getting out of control - > which was the impetus for the creation of Magic in the first place. > Our impetus was three different build-and-install systems (windows, unix, classic mac) for a large grid of customisations. > > In addition, for our commercial products, we have > > multiple build systems, none of which are currently Ant, in spite of > > my persistent hammering. However, I'll download it and give it a spin. > > Keep in mind that it's under active development as we speak (i.e. > anticipate differences between docs and the real thing). > > > Also, you might be interested in: > > > > http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3382081 > > > > This may be interesting - I don't suppose you have any addition links to > actual spec? > > Steve. http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/04/ Roger --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
