Hi Gary,
Thanks for the thoughts.
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 4:59 PM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is another reason to switch the build to Maven in my opinion.
> SNAPSHOT builds can be manually or automatically deployed to the
> Apache Snapshot repository. Yes, that's slightly different than a
> build for a known commit, but it's more in line with the rest of
> Apache as far as I know. Orthogonally, we can VOTE and release -alpha,
> -beta, or -M builds whenever we want in addition to GA releases.
> Having SNAPSHOT builds is another convenience for downstream users,
> even though one should not use those in production and they can be
> 'unstable' depending on the development process.
The XalanJ repos xalan-java's branch xalan-j_xslt3.0 now has various
XSLT 3.0 and XPath 3.1 features implemented, which I feel are useful
functional addition to XalanJ's XSLT 1.0 implementation core, making
the XalanJ dev branch xalan-j_xslt3.0 looking to have a reasonable
XSLT 3.0 and XPath 3.1 compliance in non schema aware mode.
There's a folder "tests" parallel to folder "src" on the XalanJ dev
repos branch xalan-j_xslt3.0, which has (i.e, the folder "tests")
various XSLT 3.0 and XPath 3.1 test cases that demonstrate the
correctness of XSLT 3.0 and XPath 3.1 features that we've implemented.
I also think that, the XalanJ test cases from repos xalan-test, don't
apply (since they were written for XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0 specs) to
the XalanJ codebase from dev branch xalan-j_xslt3.0.
I'd personally be happy to have a XalanJ release around these days
from dev branch xalan-j_xslt3.0, having a XalanJ release package name
suffix like 3.0-alpha1.
I'd be personally comfortable as of these days, to create a XalanJ
release RC using current XalanJ Ant build. But many people on XalanJ
forum don't like Ant builds :)
I also fully support making XalanJ releases using Maven, going
forward. But for that, we need someone like you to drive this Maven
build's configuration and creating RC and releasing that. We'd
appreciate your time on your fair priority, to take XalanJ Maven build
process further.
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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi
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