On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:53, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:30 PM -0700 Greg Stein > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would also like to add ViewCVS, but that is an application, so I > > don't see how it can be construed as matching the goals of Commons. > > It also doesn't have any other home at the ASF, so it'll just sit > > where it is... > > If you ask me, ViewCVS is a 'tool that promotes reusability.' Note > the phrase 'creation and maintenance' in the charter. It might be a > stretch, but I'm not sure by how much though. So, I believe I could > construe how ViewCVS fits under commons. I'd like to find a home for > my libtool-replacement as well - it's sort of in the same boat as > ViewCVS. > > A tools project might be sufficient, but I definitely see how we > could start with a tools component/section in commons. If enough > code comes by under 'tools,' we spin it off into a tools top-level > project. At this point, I definitely don't want to start yet another > top-level project. I'm not sure I can handle the email load... -- > justin
Just in case you are not aware there is also a bunch of other tool related code at jakarta/xml. Of those that I am aware; * gump: continuous integration tool * ant: build tool * maven: build and infrastructure tool * forrest: documentation infrastructure tool And affiliated but not Apache would be centipede. And these are just the bigger ones live ones. There are plenty of little smaller bits such as; jxr/jxr2 etc (a cross referencing tool for java code). jrcs (RCS parser and diff engine) jjar (if still alive?) And there is also graveyard stuff ala; * stylebook * alexandria It is probably a bit much to try and break out another top-level project now but it is something to think about in the future. -- Cheers, Peter Donald Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. - Fred Brooks, Jr.
