On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 17:42, Brett Porter wrote:
> Jason,
> 
> I think there is still some misunderstanding about what branches there are
> out there - please refer to my previous email. Sorry if I haven't made this
> clear enough in the past.

Yah, I'm definitely confused about what's in the branches.

> Anyway, I thought we agreed that this particular code would get embedded
> into 1.1 (ie HEAD). 

Yes, provided a release of 1.0 doesn't linger on. That was my only
concern. I'll agree for another week or two.

> Go forward with that - I'd love to see it, but I don't
> think it's wise for 1.0 because removing Jelly/Ant from the core will most
> likely break half of the plugins and existing projects. 

I think we have a growing number of plugins tests and they will just
have to be augmented.

> The problems I'm
> having with the current code is not getting it working, but keeping all the
> warts and unintuitive Jelly scoping so that existing stuff works. 
> 
> When we move to 1.1, we can afford to break existing stuff, because we'll
> have a clear way to rewrite things for the new core that should make it
> easy, and we will possibly be able to embed the old core with the new
> compatibility proposals for the POM so old code will just run as it was
> (this might be a bit ambituous :)
> 
> Anyway, I'm close enough on 1.0's branch now to getting it working. I could
> still use a little help and I think dion has put his hand up to look into
> some of the classloader issues and rogue plugins further, so let's keep on
> that track.

If you'll have it wrapped up soon that's cool.

> But by all means go to town on HEAD and let's get the new-improved code
> together as soon as it's ready!

Where did the old HEAD code go?

> Cheers,
> Brett
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, 9 December 2003 2:21 AM
> > To: Maven Developers List
> > Subject: combining some branches
> > 
> > 
> > Brett,
> > 
> > I'm getting pretty close to completion with the maven-project 
> > component so I was going to ask if we could work on one of 
> > the branches together to try and integrate it. I think your 
> > plugin work is fairly orthogonal to what I'm doing with 
> > maven-project and I think they could be combined relatively easily.
> > 
> > I was going to ask if you would try to take the cli/app 
> > classes from the rc2-refactor and integrate them into your 
> > branch. This would remove jelly/ant more away from the core 
> > and would allow the integration of maven-project. From there 
> > I will help you eliminate any remaining problems in the 
> > branch so we can merge it into the 1.0 branch and release it.
> > 
> > -- 
> > jvz.
> > 
> > Jason van Zyl
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://tambora.zenplex.org
> > 
> > In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a 
> > rational and technical order to justify his work and to be 
> > justified in it.
> >   
> >   -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
> > 
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jvz.

Jason van Zyl
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In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational
and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it.
  
  -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society


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