Next PMC meeting times?

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
At the last PMC meeting we scheduled the next PMC meeting for Monday, 16 April 2001 at 1900 GMT. Now that daylight savings time has swapped hemispheres, it might make sense to revisit this. The two somewhat workable times are 1200 GMT and 2000 GMT. I'd like to hear opinions on the following

Re: Next PMC meeting times?

2001-04-12 Thread Jon Stevens
on 4/12/01 8:42 AM, "Sam Ruby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B: 4PM California 7PM NY 2000GMT 2200Zurich 0600Melbourne (Tuesday) I vote for B. :-) -jon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next PMC meeting times?

2001-04-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 11:42 12.04.2001 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: At the last PMC meeting we scheduled the next PMC meeting for Monday, 16 April 2001 at 1900 GMT. Now that daylight savings time has swapped hemispheres, it might make sense to revisit this. The two somewhat workable times are 1200 GMT and 2000 GMT.

Re: Next PMC meeting times?

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
I vote for A: 8AM California 11AMNY 1200GMT 1400Zurich 2200Melbourne - Sam Ruby - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Hello, I suppose this horse was thoroughly beaten to death but I still would like to hear about the pros and cons of including binary files in CVS. The advantages are: - By including required jar files for an application, the installation becomes easier as the user does not need to fetch

Re: Next PMC meeting times?

2001-04-12 Thread Jason van Zyl
Sam Ruby wrote: At the last PMC meeting we scheduled the next PMC meeting for Monday, 16 April 2001 at 1900 GMT. Now that daylight savings time has swapped hemispheres, it might make sense to revisit this. The two somewhat workable times are 1200 GMT and 2000 GMT. I'd like to hear

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Jon Stevens
on 4/12/01 10:37 AM, "Ceki Glc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I suppose this horse was thoroughly beaten to death but I still would like to hear about the pros and cons of including binary files in CVS. The advantages are: - By including required jar files for an application, the

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Jon Stevens wrote: Sam doesn't like it? :-) What Sam doesn't like early binding to specific versions. The various Avalon projects are excellent examples of ones that both (1) check in cvs binaries and utilize them automatically as the defaults, but also (2) make it not only possible but easy

Re: Next PMC meeting times?

2001-04-12 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ceki [iso-8859-1] Gülcü wrote: At 11:42 12.04.2001 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: At the last PMC meeting we scheduled the next PMC meeting for Monday, 16 April 2001 at 1900 GMT. Now that daylight savings time has swapped hemispheres, it might make sense to revisit this.

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Jon Stevens
on 4/12/01 10:25 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One issue may be that each project will include ant, xerces, xalan, etc, with the same or slightly different version. That doesn't really matter and is the projects decision, right? One compromise may be to use a separate

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Glenn Nielsen
A method will still be needed for using jar's for API's in the build process which can not be made available via CVS due to licensing issues. Such as all the Sun API's. We will still need a global lib directory outside of CVS where these can be installed and made available for the build

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Jon Stevens
on 4/12/01 11:21 AM, "Sam Ruby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;.\ant-1.2.jar;.\ant-1.2-optional.jar set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;..\lib\xerces-1.3.0.jar set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;..\lib\velocity-1.0b2-dev.jar set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;..\..\jakarta-site2\lib\jdom-b6.jar No

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Kief Morris
Sam Ruby typed the following on 02:21 PM 4/12/2001 -0400 Jon Stevens wrote: Sam doesn't like it? :-) What Sam doesn't like early binding to specific versions. The various Avalon projects are excellent examples of ones that both (1) check in cvs binaries and utilize them automatically as the

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Jon Stevens
on 4/12/01 11:37 AM, "Kief Morris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Ruby typed the following on 02:21 PM 4/12/2001 -0400 Jon Stevens wrote: Sam doesn't like it? :-) What Sam doesn't like early binding to specific versions. The various Avalon projects are excellent examples of ones that

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Jon Stevens wrote: - all projects will be forced to use the latest stable release ( but this can be a big benefit ! ) -1 By use of CVS tags, we could have a number of different profiles defined. In other words, any jar file that you might want to check into your subproject's cvs, check

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
Hi Craig, At 11:25 12.04.2001 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Whether or not there is a nice, easy, "all in one" download with everything you need has absolutely nothing to do with whether binaries are checked into CVS. True. There is an important distinction indeed. Call it conventional

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Jon Stevens wrote: Define "code". [daedalus] 11:33am ~ cd /www/jakarta.apache.org/cjan/ [daedalus] 11:33am cjan dir total 5 drwxrwxr-x 3 jon jakarta 512 Nov 27 20:16 . drwxrwxr-x 35 root jakarta 1024 Apr 2 21:20 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jakarta 1562 Nov 27 20:16 cjan.xml

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread cmanolache
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Sam Ruby wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: One compromise may be to use a separate CVS only for binaries, with the latest "released" version of each product. This is not a solution for all versioning or cvs/binaries problems. Xerces, Xalan, Ant are used and checked in

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Jon Stevens
on 4/12/01 12:00 PM, "Sam Ruby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand corrected. A 1.5K file that is not even well-formed XML and an empty directory. Created and abandoned last year. My appologies. At this rate, perhaps my grandkids will be able to use CJAN. - Sam Ruby P.S. This is

RE: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Nael Mohammad
Community is king -Original Message- From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Binaries in CVS on 4/12/01 12:00 PM, "Sam Ruby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand corrected. A 1.5K file that is not even

RE: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Nael Mohammad wrote: Community is king I guess my definition of community isn't "every subproject out for itself". Hmmm. What was a fun conversation stands a definite possibility of turning unfun. Perhaps I should go back to work. - Sam Ruby

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Morgan Delagrange wrote: A common binary repository sounds like the way to go. There's no strict need for everbody to buy into it though. If, for some reason, a new release of a JAR breaks a particular subproject, that subproject can always check in the required version of a binary

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ceki [iso-8859-1] Gülcü wrote: Hi Craig, At 11:25 12.04.2001 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Whether or not there is a nice, easy, "all in one" download with everything you need has absolutely nothing to do with whether binaries are checked into CVS. True.

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 12:55 12.04.2001 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: [removed text] Why do you think that it is wrong to have binaries in CVS? All the disadvantages you listed. All the disadvantages Sam listed. Sam objects to early binding. In other words to packages assuming a certain version of a

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ceki [iso-8859-1] Gülcü wrote: At 12:55 12.04.2001 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: [removed text] Why do you think that it is wrong to have binaries in CVS? All the disadvantages you listed. All the disadvantages Sam listed. Sam objects to early

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 15:04 12.04.2001 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ceki [iso-8859-1] Glc wrote: At 12:55 12.04.2001 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: [removed text] Why do you think that it is wrong to have binaries in CVS? All the disadvantages you listed. All the

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Donald
At 12:57 13/4/01 +0200, Ceki Glc wrote: Gump does that by overriding properties (same as a build.properties file does in the proposed approach). Build.properties in the proposed approach? Doesn't compute. the library project uses build.properties where the rest of the world uses

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Donald
Binaries in CVS suck, not having binaries in CVS sucks more. Instead of complaining about them why don't implement CJAN - much more effective than pissing in the wind. After that it will be bai bai binaries. Cheers, Pete *-* | "Faced with

RE: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Nael Mohammad
Can you elaborate on CJAN? -Original Message- From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Binaries in CVS Binaries in CVS suck, not having binaries in CVS sucks more. Instead of complaining about them why don't

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Ceki Glc wrote: Sam objects to early binding. In other words to packages assuming a certain version of a dependency project where different versions of the dependency package behave differently. Is that correct? I fail to see how this is *directly* related to putting binary files in CVS.

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Donald
At 08:16 12/4/01 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: If you accept that you are in a world where interfaces that you are depending on change frequently, then the problem to solve is optimizing the communication paths. I don't accept that reality. I bet that 98% of the servlets out there would compile just

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Peter Donald wrote: At 08:16 12/4/01 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: If you accept that you are in a world where interfaces that you are depending on change frequently, then the problem to solve is optimizing the communication paths. I don't accept that reality. I bet that

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Peter Donald wrote: Welcome to opensource! Standards are not done here - we can implement them but we don't build them - for those please go elsewhere (IETF/W3C/JCP/Other). One of the advantages of opensource is people are free to adapt them to their own environments. Hence they do. If you

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Jason van Zyl
Sam Ruby wrote: [snip] Gump doesn't solve these problems. Peter Donald has outsmarted it. Jason van Zyl ignores it. I have not made the message go away, that is true. But I'm not simply going to apply a patch just to make GUMP stop complaining, that's not going to solve the real problem.

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Donald
At 06:44 12/4/01 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Gump doesn't solve these problems. Peter Donald has outsmarted it. I haven't outsmarted it. I solved the problem that was presented. You have failed to pose any other problem that would make me adjust my position - I want low cost of

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Peter Donald
At 09:45 12/4/01 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: Peter Donald wrote: Welcome to opensource! Standards are not done here - we can implement them but we don't build them - for those please go elsewhere (IETF/W3C/JCP/Other). One of the advantages of opensource is people are free to adapt them to their

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Peter Donald wrote: The fact of the matter is you would contribute to it even if you had to pass the 12 heculean tests of power, jump tall buildings at lunch and beat deep blue on your breaks ... why ? It's your job. For the record, it is Craig's job because he did all the things you said,

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Sam Ruby wrote: A final note. At http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/ymtd/ymtd.html you will find a comparison between Turbine/Velocity and Struts/JSP. I pretty much agree with everything said there. But I'll place my bets on Struts/JSP. Not because of some presumedly massive Sun

Jakarta FAQ

2001-04-12 Thread Remy Maucherat
Hi, I'd like to get an account on the Jakarta FAQ. I read what is there : http://jakarta.apache.org:8080/jyve-faq/Turbine/screen/DisplayProjects I talked with Alex, but apparently the account activation failed, and I couldn't get in touch with him since. Could one of the roots help me out ? My

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Jason van Zyl wrote: Gump doesn't solve these problems. Peter Donald has outsmarted it. Jason van Zyl ignores it. The Jetspeeders don't care about developing against the HEAD of Turbine because we do change so much (I know we change a lot and I know it's a big problem), +1 Admitting

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: why ? It's your job. For the record, it is Craig's job because he did all the things you said, not the other way around. http://conferences.oreilly.com/java/sessions/bios.html Hey - Craig's picture :) And they list him as doing bizdev for 'DAT

Re: Binaries in CVS

2001-04-12 Thread Morgan Delagrange
--- Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Costin Manolache wrote: One compromise may be to use a separate CVS only for binaries, with the latest released version of each product. Users will have to check out the project cvs and the common binaries CVS. Benefits over checking in