--- Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Morgan Delagrange wrote:
> > 
> > Below is a discussion from the Commons list. 
> > Commons-graph is the sole project with a
> dependency on
> > nsuml.  It appears that the HEAD version of nsuml
> is
> > an incomplete refactoring of the project that does
> not
> > compile with commons-graph.  It also appears that
> > nsUML development is dying or dead.  
> > 
> > Since version 1_4 of graph is poor and development
> is
> > frozen, it would seem that the best course of
> action
> > would be to stop building HEAD and use the 0.4.20
> > release JAR instead.  I wouldn't suggest departing
> > from continuous integration unless a project was
> > really and truly dead, but I believe that is the
> case
> > here.
> > 
> > Comments?  If this seems like the right thing to
> do,
> > what's the best way to do it?  A project
> definition
> > that grabs a JAR from somewhere on the internet? 
> > Placing the JAR inside the commons-graph repo?
> 
> If the speculative changes were made on the HEAD
> have no community 
> and/or are unsupported, why not create a branch for
> that, and then 
> restore the original versions on the HEAD.
> 
> - Sam Ruby
> 
> P.S.  I have no specific opinion on what the right
> course of action is 
> here, I am merely pleased to see Gump motivate
> people having such 
> discussions.  ;-)
> 

Gosh, Sam, I just wanted somebody to tell me what to
do, not make me think...  I don't know if we'll
convince the nsUML folks to roll back to the old
version.  From the traffic on the list, this is my
interpretation of nsUML's state:

  1) The HEAD version does have some early adopters.
  2) The HEAD version is nonetheless incomplete.
  3) The project is spinning toward inactivity.

Not the best state for your dependencies.  I've taken
a look at the source code for nsUML, and I really
don't want to go swimming in that pool.  However I do
want graph to build, so that Maven will build and I
may someday spend a whole day without running the
bootstrap.  

Let's say "theoretically" ;) that I wanted to use a
fixed version of nsUML for the time being.  What would
I do?  Or is this solution unjustifiable?

- Morgan

=====
Morgan Delagrange
http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons
http://axion.tigris.org
http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog

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