Simon Kitching schrieb:
Hi,
Sooner or later, the MyFaces core will stabilise while tomahawk charges
ahead. So at *some* time the release cycles will have to separate. I
think it's beneficial to split them sooner rather than later, so I'd
like to see a structure set up now that makes that easier.
Yes
Sooner or later, real "bugfix" releases should also be supported;
MyFaces has just ignored that issue so far. Again, this is much easier
to do when the libraries have separate release cycles; I'd hate to see a
new myfaces-impl.jar release just because a nasty bug was found in
t:dataTable...
Yes :-)
On the subject of externals, I dislike them a lot. Sometimes they are
necessary, but I'd prefer to see them kept to a minimum.
Yes
Note that it's perfectly possible in SVN to copy several dirs into a
tags dir, eg
svn cp myfaces/trunk/commons tags/spec/x.y.z/commons
svn cp myfaces/trunk/api tags/spec/x.y.z/api
to make a tag dir containing the two parts of MyFaces required to
implement the specification (commons and core). In other words, how the
subprojects are grouped for releases doesn't have to mirror their
repository layout.
Yes, this is possible.
But the current stucture is:
myfaces/commons/trunk
myfaces/api/trunk
Do you mean:
svn cp myfaces/commons/trunk tags/spec/x.y.z/commons
svn cp myfaces/api/trunk tags/spec/x.y.z/api
Why do you want to change the layout in a branch or tag only?
You only need some svn moves and some changes in the poms. Every user
can see the current state of the structure and what he can expect in the
next release cycle.
And I don't think this works with the release-plugin from maven.
Maven provides some little help for performing a release.
If we decide to use maven we should go the maven way.
See:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-releasing.html
But I never try it.
It makes creating a tag fractionally more complicated
(it *is* nicer just to be able to copy some common root dir) but I would
still prefer this over externals.
This would be correct. if svn doesn't support move.
And if externals are a common use case, why I never see it?
Regards,
Simon
Regards
Bernd
