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. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
