Peter,

My own view is that *no changes* to the source tree are needed.  I think 
it is only an issue for jaring.

  excalibur-logger-4.1.2.jar  etc.

Each time I see a disparate source tree, when one could have done, then 
my heart breaks a little. (Don't beat me with apps/ ;-)

- PAul

>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. 
>




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