Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Vincent Massol wrote:
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>
>> The question is where do we store these tasks ? I'm not sure the
>> jakarta-commons is the correct place. It seems to me that it would be better
>> if it were linked to the Ant project itself. However, if the goal is to
>> develop the idea of this repository and just make an experiment so that
>> later on the Ant project could reclaim it, then why not. But I am not in
>> favor of moving it to the commons later because I think it fits better with
>> the Ant project.
>>
>
>
> I agree with Vincent ... the Commons sandbox isn't designed to be a
> dumping ground for code nobody else wants; it is for experiments and
> collaboration on potentially shareable components.
>
> I've just encouraged the Taglibs crowd (who was considering the using the
> Commons sandbox for user-contributed tags as well) to vote to create their
> own jakarta-taglibs-sandbox repository. The technical details are
> trivially simple, and this would clearly link the new repository with the
> Taglibs project. I'd encourage the Ant crowd to do the same thing. (And
> I'm going to take my own advice on Struts for contributed stuff that we
> haven't had time to integrate yet :-).
>
> Craig
I will try and initiate that over on Ant-dev. My intention was to
finish the functionality to enable the xpath task to make it into the
distribution, so an ant-sandox is appropriate.
Scott Sanders
