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

2002-05-25 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 solve

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 in

Re: build changes

2002-05-24 Thread Peter B. West
Foppers, I'm beginning to realise what a mighty cultural gulf I'm talking across. As an aid to understanding, I have just tried the following on my linux system. (Note that we are talking binaries here.) $ cd /usr/bin $ ls | (xargs ident 2>/dev/null) | less The results are patchy. For most fi

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 t

Re: build changes

2002-05-24 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron, See below. Keiron Liddle wrote: >Hi Peter, > >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 canvassed this a short time ago. That is, >>to eliminate the situation where th

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 su

Re: build changes

2002-05-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Peter, 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 canvassed this a short time ago. That is, > to eliminate the situation where the identification of a build depends > on manual int

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

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 br

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

2002-05-22 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 br

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

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 hopeful

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 l