Hello DSpace Community, We have reached a very interesting point in our software's history where we have really outgrown our current development practices and find it neccessary to expand how the DSpace Source Code Management system is used. To attain the goals that have been outlined in the Architectural Review last fall we have passed into a phase where the "Trunk" of the DSpace SCM needs to be devoted to more dramatic and aggressive development. Last fall, at the Architectural Review, it was determined that we had to find a solution that will allow for more independent and controlled extension of DSpace. This solution was coined the "Addon Mechanism" and several prototypes evolved to explore various implementation solutions.
This is an important notice to alert the community that the Subversion "trunk" has changed to adapt a new source-code organization and build system, this new build system is presently incompatible with the older ant based DSpace build mechanism. If you have been using the DSpace subversion trunk (http:// dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dspace/trunk/) to handle merging your production maintenance against. We highly recommend that you use the current stable maintenance branch instead, it is located at: http://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dspace/branches/ dspace-1_4_x The 1_4_x maintenance branch will be kept compatible with the existing 1.4.x build process and is the best solution for present production needs. It will always be guaranteed to be reasonably backward compatible with any customization you may have in the 1.4 track. Meanwhile, in the trunk, we are now solidifying the new build system. We expect that this may change unpredictably as we seek out the best possible solutions for the new AddOn mechanism and welcome both the Manakin and LNI codebases under the umbrella of the new DSpace Foundation. You can look forward to the 1.5 release of DSpace to have many new features. It will provide a dynamic and versatile mechanism for including your institutions branding and customized extensions. Please do forward this email onto your development and DSpace support staff and/or cross post to any other dspace list-services, forums or user groups, including a translation if possible for any international lists. thank you, Mark Diggory DSpace Commiters Group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
