Re: build changes

2002-05-25 Thread J.Pietschmann
Peter B. West wrote: I'm beginning to realise what a mighty cultural gulf I'm talking across. Every developer seems to dream of solving the versioning problem. Unfortunately, there are no universally accepted, detailed specs on what's a version and even on what problems versioning should

Re: build changes

2002-05-25 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: If you really like a challenge, talk the other apache projects into using a standardised top-level directory structure with one doc, one src and so on :-) pietsch, Do I want more of a challenge than FOP? You must be joking. Ahh, I see that you are. Peter

RE: build changes

2002-05-24 Thread Arved Sandstrom
-Original Message- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 24, 2002 6:29 AM To: FOP Subject: Re: build changes On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 12:51, Peter B. West wrote: The full range of what I want to do with versioning I am not sure of; the minimum I am sure of. I

Re: build changes

2002-05-24 Thread Peter B. West
Arved Sandstrom wrote: -Original Message- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Ant is a cross-platform (by virtue of Java and XML) makefile system, basically, optimized for Java projects. Which is not new information. Sometimes we all lose sight of the fact that that is

RE: build changes

2002-05-24 Thread Arved Sandstrom
-Original Message- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 24, 2002 9:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: build changes What approach is taken in the places you mention to the identification of binary components? Version information is included

Re: build changes

2002-05-23 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 05:46, Peter B. West wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, What's the state of play now with the changes to the build system? Has the elimination of Xalan1 been completed? Who's doing what there? I am planning to throw a branch off HEAD

Re: build changes

2002-05-23 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:30, Peter B. West wrote: Are you *trying* to annoy me, or does it just happen? I don't want to jump to conclusions. Relax, I'm not trying to annoy you. Keiron, Thanks for that, and my apologies for the sharp tone. I have to

Re: build changes

2002-05-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 05:46, Peter B. West wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, What's the state of play now with the changes to the build system? Has the elimination of Xalan1 been completed? Who's doing what there? I am planning to throw a branch off HEAD to tinker with at

Re: build changes

2002-05-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:30, Peter B. West wrote: Are you *trying* to annoy me, or does it just happen? I don't want to jump to conclusions. Relax, I'm not trying to annoy you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: build changes

2002-05-21 Thread Christian Geisert
Peter B. West schrieb: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, What's the state of play now with the changes to the build system? Has the elimination of Xalan1 been completed? Who's doing what there? Xalan1 has been removed. Upgrade of xerces/xalan hasn't been done yet (but I'll hopefully

build changes

2002-05-20 Thread Peter B. West
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, What's the state of play now with the changes to the build system? Has the elimination of Xalan1 been completed? Who's doing what there? I am planning to throw a branch off HEAD to tinker with at least the versioning information for the build. I would