Leo Simons wrote: > > Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > > Leo Simons wrote: > > > > THere has always been the idea of merging both [store] packages. > > Perhaps we could try this again? > > uhm. Sure....who feels like doing the work? Where does the > merged package go? > If there is interest I would try it. Perhaps at avalon-components?
> The problem is that both excalibur-store and > cornerstone-store have users, and an incompatible interface. > If the primary user for excalibur-store is going away, this > might be more trouble than ts worth.... > Agreed. > > One of the problems of the store package is imho that it > just works. > > THere is no real need to improve or document it (things that are > > working are always bad for open source as no community > builds around it). > > there is a need to document it and have tests for it. I'd > like to have high quality stuff, and measurable high quality. > Point taken though. > > > The xmlutils package is a very nice one (I think) and it > has imho the > > same problem as store: it works > > xmlutils is just a big headache package for me, and there's > apparently no-one with the ability and time to make that > headache go away. The tests have been failing for many, many months. > > These packages "just work" if you know how to use them. If > not, trouble. > And they don't "just build". And people like me and Niclas > keep wasting energy changing that. > Ok, my personal trouble with this package has always been that it didn't build with the build system we had. So I simply used Eclipse (being a little bit lasy). Once we have finally decided for one build system, I expect that things get better for this package! What I don't understand is: if someone adds tests to a package why he isn't interested anymore if they are running or not. So the question for me is: who added the test? > > We could try for both packages to ask the Cocoon community > if they can > > help us with the two packages: write docs etc. Perhaps we get a > > positive answer. > > Did that already didn't we? I'm sure some cocooners are > reading along; I know I did sent such a message out a week or > two ago to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I did a year ago. All cocooners > have write access to our repository. The barrier is as small > as we can make it. People oughtta know by now there's some > dying code over here. > Hmm, true. Ok, now this questions is for me combined with another question: will Excalibur also provide a component repository for useful components or do we leave that to other places? If we want to have repository I would say, let's keep xmlutils and store and sourceresolver - if not, let's archive these things and see what will happen. Carsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Excalibur Project -- URL: http://excalibur.apache.org/
