On Jan 10, 2007, at 5:17 AM, ant elder wrote:
On 1/10/07, Jim Marino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Have we looked on how other Apache Projects are handling this ?
>
I believe Jeremy has with Geronimo. Other projects outside Apache
such as JBoss, Hibernate, and Spring release subprojects
independently as well.
True, but what is a 'subproject' is not precisely defined and
they are
usually fairly coarsely grained. For example, Spring does have
independently
released subprojects, but the main Spring release is a lot more
than just
the their IOC container, it comes with a whole bunch of related
components -
spring-aop, spring-jms, spring-jpa, etc - that they deem make the
release
useful and interesting, and that they have tested are all at
compatible
levels.
Subprojects in Spring such as Pitchfork, WebFlow and Spring Security
are released independtly. Spring AOP and their IOC container would be
equivalent to our kernel projects. It's also interesting to note that
for the other pieces you mentioned they are modularizing further.
Also, all those components are generally only released together
rather than having lots of separate independent releases. This seems
generally the case looking across most other projects vaguely
similar to us.
That's not been my experience. The Spring modules I mentioned, as
well as Eclipse, Hibernate, Jetty and JBoss are a some that come to
mind.
Jim
...ant
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