"Stanley,Michael P." wrote:
>
> I have become very interested in your product, more so I am interested
> in helping with some development.
Ace!
> I was planning on writing a decent
> listserve mailet.
You know there is one included? Feel free to improve it.
> I've been looking through the code of the last
> release and am finding it hard to follow. I look at the head of the cvs
> and I see significant changes and it appears you've started a push to
> the new Avalon Framework. My questions all pretty much relate to that
> push. How far along is the complete switch?
The code in cvs uses one of the beta releases of Avalon 4.0 and the
contemporaneous Phoenix and Cornerstone.
In other words the switch is conplete. Although we may not be using all
the features of Avalon.
> What version of Avalon was
> used in the latest release? Can I get the source to the Avalon that was
> used in that release (I'm having a real hard time finding it through
> conventional CVS use, Avalon has changed a lot). What is the current
> roadmap planned for James? Should I begin my development with the
> stable release or should I start by using the <blank>?
I would strongly encourage you to work from cvs.
I've just posted instructions on getting avalon code behind the
(December) last release.
> Is there any
> work being done on the readability of your code namely the includes.
> Let me explain. In all your files you include entire packages with
> wildcards. When coming across a method or Class it is hard to find the
> javadoc/source to grasp an idea of what is fully going on, because the
> realms are so large. I suggest that includes should avoid wildcards and
> try to include only what is actually used in the particular file. This
> will make browsing the source much less painful.
I agree. As we alter the code we should unglob the imports. I thought
most of this had been done.
Charles
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