+1 Arnaud
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 > > --jason > > > > On Jun 13, 2008, at 9:30 PM, John Casey wrote: > > +1 >> >> -john >> >> Jason van Zyl wrote: >> >>> 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] >>> >>> >> -- >> John Casey >> Developer, PMC Member - Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org) >> Blog: http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/buildchimp/ >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
