Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:

>> I am not very happy with the maven layout - which includes only jars.
>> If this is aproved - I would like it to require a layout that supports
>> all project components. I assume ( hope ) that part of this project
>> will be an effort to convert jakarta projects to this layout, and also
>> make the necesary changes to gump to generate output for the repository.
> 
> Actually, this is only the *initial* codebase. We decided to follow the
> Maven layout to minimize duplication, but it will evolve/change in any
> way deemed best. We want the result and an active community round it,
> not the code (specifically, not necessarily /that/ code).

I don't care too much about the code either - but more about a layout
that supports both jars and docs and support files. 

Tomcat does this using standard ant tasks ( get, tar, zip, etc ) 
on the original distribution - and I think this should continue to work.
What I think is important is to get the projects generate output and
releases in this layout and into the repository. 

I recently switched to gentoo linux - and the "portage" system is just 
wonderfull. I plan to try to get gump generate emerge files and get
it to work for jakarta projects - I think this should work too ( i.e. 
the portage system should be able to download the sources from a standard
location and format ).


> The proposal comprises Krysalis Version, which is an effort to define
> versions in an implementation indipendent way. I think that it's in the
> best interest of the project, to support multiple repositories too.

I would sugest proposing Version to ant. 


> For example downloading from Sourceforge using their mirroring is
> another option that IMHO should be available. Of course this needs a
> metadata facility, similar to the  one that JJAR has (and here comes the
> JJAR as an example), but this is already discussing the code details ;-)

+1

Costin


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