On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Stefano Bagnara<[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Stefano Bagnara<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: >>>> i added these by request but david finds them confusing. they are >>>> certainly not usually included in apache releases. >>>> >>>> so, i'd like to find out whether anyone really cares about them either >>>> way (i don't) >>>> >>>> this is just a poll so no question of binding votes etc >>> [X] -1 Definitely Get Rid >>> >>> BTW my understanding is that they were needed by the ant builds in order >>> to be placed in jars. Until we use ant we can't remove them (unless we >>> hardcode them in the build.xml or in another folder). >> >> they aren't required when i write the ant builds ;-) >> >> - robert > > Can you elaborate?
it's been a while - if no one else has a strong memory then it's probably safe to assume that we can just let the idea drop > I thought you added them in order to be able to make redistributable > artifacts with ant, too: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=581727 ant is flexible and there are several ways that could be achieved > If you didn't add them because of ant, can you explain why "you added > these by request", who requested it and what the motivation was? I'm a > bit lost on this and I'd like to understand if I missing anything. IIRC people preferred to have copies of the plain LICENSE and NOTICE around so i retained them. - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
