Hi, Ages ago we decided that it would be nice if excalibur also offered the possibility of individual bite-sized chunks. I have finally got the time to do it now and want to start doing it tomorrow if all is still good.
The idea is to end up with excalibur-cli.jar, excalibur-i18n.jar, excalibur-naming.jar etc and also one excalibur-all.jar (or whatever we want to call it). Each of the components that could be separated would be separated out into little sub-hierarchies and all would be good. We could also locate documentation and examples in the same little project hierarchy. Originally I intended to create a new hierarchy and place all products in there. SO it would look like jakarta-avalon-excalibur/aut/cli/** jakarta-avalon-excalibur/aut/naming/** etc. However thinking about it again I believe a better approach would be to do something like jakarta-avalon-excalibur/cli/** jakarta-avalon-excalibur/naming/** ... This however will require a significant amount of hand surgery on CVS repositories (because I want to keep the revision history). So I propose the second approach will be used. My first move will be to move everything in jakarta-avalon-excalibur/ into jakarta-avalon-excalibur/all and then gradually copy across history as needed into new subproducts. Each subproject will look very similar to current avalon project directoriues. Basically it will be like cli/README cli/ant.properties.sample cli/build.xml cli/src/java cli/src/manifest cli/src/xdocs cli/examples If you desire any reorgs of this structure now is the time to speak. I will also start to gumpify these individual products as required and hook them to various projects who require them. Anyways I plan to do this 16 hours from now unless someone throws up a red flag. So commit anything that is pending or else you may have to do a little bit of work to commit it later. After the initial reorg feel free to exrtact other bits out overtime aswell. If all is good I will send out a mail indicating everyone should stop working on repo and it may be down for an hour or two but after that we should be good to go. -- Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Computers are useless. They can only give you | | answers." - Pablo Picasso | *------------------------------------------------------* -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
