> > (2) Conor said he liked the idea and was willing to help.
> Stating that
> > "absolutely no one from the community has volunteered to step up" is
> > wrong.
>
> Ok, I haven't gotten one request to modify the .xml file that
> I placed up on
> the Jakarta site. A statement of being willing to help is a
> hell of a lot
> different than someone actually sending me a patch or code or
> whatever.
>
Jon,
I appreciate your enthusiasm but I guess I am just a little old and
slow. Your proposal arrived at 3:20pm Tuesday in my time zone. It is now
some 31 hours later. Were you seriously expecting to have someone submit
code in that sort of timeframe? In that timeframe, I managed some
sleep, performed a major release at my day job, gave some thought to the
emails and problems on ant-dev & ant-user and gave the occasional
thought to a cjpan task/app.
I can give you some immediate feedback on your XML file. The construct
<version="1.2.2" latest="true">
is not valid XML :-)
More constructively, I think that items such as Jaxp should be
considered services and not products. Services would have a number of
products which can act as providers. Something along these lines
<product name="Ant" permissionToDistribute="true">
<ver version="1.2" latest="true">
<description>
This is Ant version 1.2
</description>
<depends service="jaxp" version="1.0" required="true"/>
...
</product>
<service name="jaxp">
<ver version="1.0" latest="false">
<provider name="xerces" version="1.2"/>
<provider name="jaxp_reference" version="1.0"/>
</ver>
</service>
I am willing to help. I have an impulse engine not a warp drive.
