On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:52, Leo Simons wrote: > Do you think you can get this working in time for the first releases of > apps (excluding the demo, perhaps)? I'd help, but I'm guessing that means > learning ant internals as well...for which I have no time...
half the code for scanning and building up dependencies lists is in excalibur/extensions. If you want to pitch then the main thing that needs doing thereis creating a new implementation of PackageRepository that caches all the package information in a cache file. ie Say I point the repository at the path /opt/java/jars I want it to scan all the jars and load all the extension data in said jars and then store it in /opt/java/jars/.lib.cache (or something) So in future can just read that file when looking for a new extension. This is similar to what the ld.so mechanism does under linux and it seems to scale well - at least up to a few thousand .so files - so it should be something that we should do in java. If you want to do that and/or need more info then just drop us a line -- Cheers, Pete Bill Gates: "Innovation" Me: "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
