Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Husted
On 11/3/05, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as distribution size (for releases), I suppose we could take > an approach where we package the dependencies under a separate folder > (similar to what Spring and JSF RI do), and provide a build.bat and > build.sh file that can assemble

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread James Mitchell
As far as distribution size (for releases), I suppose we could take an approach where we package the dependencies under a separate folder (similar to what Spring and JSF RI do), and provide a build.bat and build.sh file that can assemble it on the other end. -- James Mitchell 678.910.8017

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Don Brown
Ted Husted wrote: So let's go with this then: * The Struts Core Library distribution can start out at 1.3_00, and not increment again until all of its components are GA. When the Struts Core subproject increments a major or minor number, then the Library distribution will follow suit. * When th

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Husted
So let's go with this then: * The Struts Core Library distribution can start out at 1.3_00, and not increment again until all of its components are GA. When the Struts Core subproject increments a major or minor number, then the Library distribution will follow suit. * When the new subprojects (S

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Martin Cooper
On 11/3/05, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Struts Classic" keeps making me think "That's not the version I want > -- I want Struts Modern". > > On 11/3/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > VW was making Bug/Beetle for 50 years or so, it acquired Classic > > status som

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Hubert Rabago
"Struts Classic" keeps making me think "That's not the version I want -- I want Struts Modern". On 11/3/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VW was making Bug/Beetle for 50 years or so, it acquired Classic > status sometimes in 60-ies, before Golf/Rabbit was introduced ;-) Well, no

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 11/3/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Jouravlev wrote: > > I still don't get what is wrong with Struts Classic. Levi's 501 is > > classic and looks much better than stupid baggy pants. Heinz Original > > is better than some newer products. Can you reinvent ketchup? This

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Michael Jouravlev wrote: I still don't get what is wrong with Struts Classic. Levi's 501 is classic and looks much better than stupid baggy pants. Heinz Original is better than some newer products. Can you reinvent ketchup? This can be an idea for a slogan ;-) How can you have something that is

Re: Struts Core Library versioning (was: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsClassicRelease130" by TedHusted)

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 11/3/05, Laurie Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the name, I agree with others that 'Struts Classic' gives the wrong > impresion, but I'm not too keen on 'Struts Core Library'. That suggests > that it's part of a larger set of libraries you need to download to use > 'Struts' for those used

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 11/3/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, my suggestion would be to just give the Library > distribution a sequential counter. The first GA release could be _001, > and the next _002, and so forth. > > * struts_core_library_001.zip > * struts_core_library_002.zip I like t

Re: Struts Core Library versioning (was: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsClassicRelease130" by TedHusted)

2005-11-03 Thread Laurie Harper
Wendy Smoak wrote: The following page has been changed by TedHusted: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsClassicRelease130 The comment on the change is: Per discussions on dev@, phase in the "Struts Core Library" idea. - * Download the Struts 1.3.0 distribution from http://svn.apache.org/dist

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Husted
On 11/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Would there be any value of not versioning the bundle at all, forcing > people to refer to the versions of the individual components? The > bundle could then represent the latest version of those components, for > convenience in downloading, an

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 11/3/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/3/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or, we could just forget the whole thing and have only the individual > > subproject releases. The bundle isn't mission critical; it was only > > meant as a convenience. > > Bundle is

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 11/3/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or, we could just forget the whole thing and have only the individual > subproject releases. The bundle isn't mission critical; it was only > meant as a convenience. Bundle is critical, it ensures communication between teams ("Works for me... Whi

RE: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread George.Dinwiddie
Ted Husted said: > Or, we could just forget the whole thing and have only the > individual subproject releases. The bundle isn't mission > critical; it was only meant as a convenience. Would there be any value of not versioning the bundle at all, forcing people to refer to the versions of the in

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Greg Reddin
On Nov 3, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Ted Husted wrote: At this point, my suggestion would be to just give the Library distribution a sequential counter. The first GA release could be _001, and the next _002, and so forth. * struts_core_library_001.zip * struts_core_library_002.zip Or, we could just f

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Husted
On 11/3/05, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > they will. I think it's highly unlikely that we'll want to rev the bundled > distribution without a rev of struts-core, since people can download updated > add-ons without having to grab the entire bundle, so I don't foresee issues > there. (An

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Hubert Rabago
On 11/3/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This way it's always clear which distro a none-core subproject release > > works with. > > (i.e. you can't be sure about using taglib-1.3.1.2 with core-1.3.0, > > but you're sure that taglib-1.3.0.4 will work) > > I like this. 1.3.1 does

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Martin Cooper
On 11/3/05, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about this. > > Struts 1.3.0 Distro > - struts-core-1.3.0 > - struts-taglib-1.3.0 > - struts-tiles-1.3.0 > - struts-el-1.3.0 > - struts-apps-1.3.0 > - struts-site-1.3.0 > - struts-extras-1.3.0 > > Subprojects can have their own independe

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 11/3/05, Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about this. > > Struts 1.3.0 Distro > - struts-core-1.3.0 > - struts-taglib-1.3.0 > - struts-tiles-1.3.0 > - struts-el-1.3.0 > - struts-apps-1.3.0 > - struts-site-1.3.0 > - struts-extras-1.3.0 > > Subprojects can have their own independent

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Husted
On 11/3/05, Greg Reddin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One queston: Will we ever release the distro again? Or will each > subproject just release independently? Right now, I'm thinking that there will be an initial "test" distribution when the original seven dwarfs are ready for wider testing. Afte

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Hubert Rabago
What about this. Struts 1.3.0 Distro - struts-core-1.3.0 - struts-taglib-1.3.0 - struts-tiles-1.3.0 - struts-el-1.3.0 - struts-apps-1.3.0 - struts-site-1.3.0 - struts-extras-1.3.0 Subprojects can have their own independent release numbers all being 1.3.0.x, with the "1.3.0" dictated by struts-cor

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Niall Pemberton
On 11/3/05, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After five years, the concept of Struts as a product is not going to > go away so easily. > > Whether we call it 'Classic' or 'Core Library' or something else, I > really think it needs to have 1.3 in the name and contain the 1.3.x > versions

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Husted
On 11/3/05, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I missed the decision to include BSF, Flow and Faces. I don't think > they belong in this distribution-- they have declared dependencies on > Struts 1.2.7 and prior. The comment on the Release Plan means to say that any Apache Struts extension

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Wolfgang Gehner
How Eclipse recommends their plugin versions, for RCP apps: a distro such as 3.1 "can" have modules (plugins) that have different versions, but the recommended way is to push the distro version to the plugins, so whatever plugins were 3.1.4 or whatever become 3.2.0 in the next distro. People un

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Wendy Smoak
On 11/2/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started to do that, but the idea was to also include the new > subprojects, like Scripting and Flow and Faces, which would start at a > 1.0.0 release. It seemed consistant to start with 1.0.0. I missed the decision to include BSF, Flow and Fac

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-03 Thread Greg Reddin
I guess I long for simplicity. I'm cool with the way everything is structured. I would prefer a version number on the distro. And to me it seems more natural to start it with 1.3.0. That's what we're doing with the Tiles subproject. Even though it's really release 0.1 of the Tiles subp

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 11/2/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not uncommon for branded products to use dates as an identifier. > Microsoft does it all the time. Of course, whether they actually test > those products, I won't venture to say. :) Sun has tried that branding approach as well on occastio

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Ted Husted
It's not uncommon for branded products to use dates as an identifier. Microsoft does it all the time. Of course, whether they actually test those products, I won't venture to say. :) On 11/2/05, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *That* is the characteristic that a nightly build type

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Ted Husted wrote: As Martin has already explained, there is an experimental area called the Sandbox, and that's where Ti lives now. Shale has already been there and done that. Shale is not an experiment. Shale is a first-class citizen of the Apache Struts project. Get used to it. Yes, I underst

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Ted Husted
On 11/2/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there was an "experimentation" group, or a "Future Struts Proposals", > or something along those lines, which could include Ti and others as > well, then I believe that more accurately describes how these things > relate to each other.

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Jouravlev
Whether "classic" has a bad flair or not, it is much closer to real state of things, than Struts Core, which is not actually a core. Using a fancier name (from the point of view of some marketing-affected people) instead of cleaner and true name does not make much sense to me. Neither as 2 calories

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
Ted Husted wrote: On 11/2/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why wouldn't there simply be a distro called Struts that includes Core (which happens to map to the core subproject) and the original seven subprojects, plus the three new ones if you want? There is. But, it is not na

Re: Struts Core Library versioning (was: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsClassicRelease130" by TedHusted)

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Jouravlev
On 11/2/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/2/05, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I like the new name, but have reservations about starting with version > > 1.0.0. > > > > I know this is the first ever "Struts Core Library", but to most > > people it's just Struts, and Str

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 11/2/05, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/2/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why wouldn't there simply be a distro called Struts that includes Core > > (which happens to map to the core subproject) and the original seven > > subprojects, plus the three new ones

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Ted Husted
On 11/2/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why wouldn't there simply be a distro called Struts that includes Core > (which happens to map to the core subproject) and the original seven > subprojects, plus the three new ones if you want? There is. But, it is not named "Struts" becau

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I for one would have no objection to dating. That's a good compromise. I still think a version number would be better, but a date I could certainly live with. The naming I still would contend is confusing though. Why wouldn't there simply be a distro called Struts that includes Core (which

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Ted Husted
On 11/2/05, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I expected to see a Struts distro that combined core and flow and > scripting and whatever else that when combined formed what we know now > as Struts. Anything else would be an extension. By a distribution I mean that we zip up subprojec

Re: Struts Core Library versioning

2005-11-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
I find this to be even more confusing on two counts... First, the version numbers, I thought the idea was that subprojects could develop independently of one another... in that case, it doesn't really matter if they all start at 1.0.0 or not. Second, I know we discussed this yesterday, but I

Re: Struts Core Library versioning (was: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsClassicRelease130" by TedHusted)

2005-11-02 Thread Ted Husted
On 11/2/05, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the new name, but have reservations about starting with version 1.0.0. > > I know this is the first ever "Struts Core Library", but to most > people it's just Struts, and Struts already had a 1.0 release. > > Yes, it's a marketing thing. :

Re: Struts Core Library versioning (was: Re: [Struts Wiki] Update of "StrutsClassicRelease130" by TedHusted)

2005-11-02 Thread Joe Germuska
At 7:44 PM -0700 11/2/05, Wendy Smoak wrote: > The following page has been changed by TedHusted: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsClassicRelease130 The comment on the change is: Per discussions on dev@, phase in the "Struts Core Library" idea. - * Download the Struts 1.3.0 distributio