I've been working on the build process for Xalan, simplifying it and
migrating it to Maven. In the process I'm making a few changes such as
moving the xsltc samples into actual Java packages for clarity.
Currently, two aspcts of the Ant-based build that I have *not*
replicated are the compressed "distribution archives":
xalan-j_2_7_3-bin.tar.gz (where "bin" includes source of the samples)
xalan-j_2_7_3-bin.zip
xalan-j_2_7_3-src.tar.gz (where "src" includes a copy of xalan-test)
xalan-j_2_7_3-src.zip
and the per-sample "executable" archives:
xalanservlet.war
xsltcapplet.jar
xsltcbrazil.jar
xsltcejb.jar
xsltcservlet.jar
The xsltc samples are now incorporated in samples.jar, since the
packages keep them from stepping on each other. I am not currently
generating the xalanservlet.war file.
Question for the community: How important is it to continue producing
these? My impression is that the distribution archives were primarily
needed in the days before git and maven and such, when the primary mode
of downloading was via a link from the website and bandwidth was far
more limited. And I don't know if anyone still cares about having canned
executables for the xsltc samples.
If there is still a community need for any of these, I can do the
additional work to persuade the Maven build to generate them... but
since that would be a bit messy, I'd rather avoid (or defer) that work
if I can.
User opinions, please?
