The point being gump is not a BUILD engine, like ant or maven. gump is a way to cordinate many builds.
an important point. Gump is not about builds, but all about reuse...indeed...
"promote stronger integration between the various codebases"
including build engines! Its an integration engine that integrates with a (currently potentially multiple) build engine. Gump doesn't create artifacts, it integrates projects. Those projects happen to be about creating artifacts.
" ... charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to automated integration between open-source projects."
I think that precludes something like a wiki, or a mailing list (thoese are not "automated"), and I feel it doesn't include a build engine either. But it could still mean something like Agora (which is or can be automated and is also about integration).
" ... charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to promotion and facilitation of automated integration of the software produced by other projects."
I think that excludes stuff like Agora (integration of people, not software), maven & ant (software creation not software integration), wikis (not automated). jar repositories (not automated, no focus on integration). It also precludes things like mailing list software (which after all /is/ used to integrate between projects, ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] discussion is not automated either :D).
It does encapsulate nagging (promotion), artifact publishing (there's no other way to actually verify the integration is working), and focuses on integration.
It doesn't feel quite as warmly nor read as easily as the other stuff, but I don't think those are the primary criteria :D
...boy this is hard work! (Especially when English is not your native language ;))
thoughts?
-- cheers,
- Leo Simons
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