+1, have only heard good things about oleg :) On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Raphaël Piéroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +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] >> >> >
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