On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 06:55:47PM +0100, Jorg Heymans wrote: > Leo Simons wrote: > > Not from me, but it seems you have some :-) > > oh good old reverse psychology, neat ;)
hehehe. <wrubs hands/> > >>As you might know, we at cocoon depend quite heavily on excalibur libs > >>and have recently decided to bite the bullet and convert our build > >>system to use maven2. It would be very helpful for us if we could rely > >>on excalibur being defined as an m2 pom with proper dependencies > >>configured, rather than having to use the incompatible maven1 project > >>definitions. > > > > Feel free to bite a somewhat bigger bullet and work on this. If all is well, > > all the cocoon committers have commit access to the excalibur svn repo. But > > be warned that we'll make anyone who dares contribute a lot an excalibur > > committer too! :-) > > well i toyed around a bit on excalibur-trunk and was able to convert 10 > modules quite quickly, just basic jar'ing but that's all we need > initially anyway. Once this is a bit more complete i would like to try > and release the poms and jars to the maven2 repo at ibiblio. Our use of maven 1 is pretty standard so I would assume it shouldn't be too hard to convert to maven 2. Kind-of hoping that other projects take the plunge and figure out the problems and then they fix them and then its real easy over here :-) > Are there any other downstream projects hanging off these excalibur libs? Are you serious? :-). The bits of java software at apache that have the most dependencies hanging off them used to be, in rough order, Xerces Ant Xalan Log4j Avalon Commons-Logging I'm guessing maven really should be on that list by now too but sine gump doesn't know how to build maven I don't know where it is. Maven 2 used to depend on plexus which used to depend on avalon-framework and I think one or two excalibur libraries. No idea whether that's still true. At apache the primary "clients" are Apache Cocoon, Apache James, Apache Jakarta Turbine. I think one or two other jakarta bits. But that trickles down to a lot of other code. If avalon-framework breaks, lots of other open source stuff breaks way down the line. Similarly for logkit. Another open source project is the Keel Framework. And then there's closed source stuff all around. cheers! LSD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
