+1 Raphaël
2008/6/13 Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Oleg has been contributing patches to the artifact mechanism for well over 6 > months and has gone through some steps to look at graph-based resolution, > and subsequently moved on to the boolean solver method of performing version > selection in artifact resolution. This is the method that p2 is using in > Eclipse, and Daniel Le Berre (the author of the SAT4J library we are using) > has been kind enough to introduce us to some of the Linux distro folks who > are using the same methods to resolve ranges in their package managers which > is not an easy problem. > > Oleg has been studying the math and working with Daniel and I believe has > provided us with a path to world-class artifact resolution. We need to get > rid of what we have because there is simply no way to do ranges correctly > without some form of solver, it's just impossible and this is generally > accepted by the community of people dealing with dependency and packaging > problems. > > I've been applying Oleg's patches for a long time, and I would like to give > him commit access to continue his work which I believe is part of the future > for Maven's artifact resolution mechanism. > > +1 > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > jason at sonatype dot com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > We know what we are, but know not what we may be. > > -- Shakespeare > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
