Peter Donald wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:26, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> > Peter Donald wrote:
> > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:09, Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> > > > can someone give me a hint on what's the procedure to release a
> > > > subproject? Is a vote necessary?
> > >
> > > There is no real formal process for release. Usually it is lazy
> > > consensus for
> > > components that are already released so just state intentions 
> and unless
> > > anyone objects go for it.
> >
> > Ok, but what does 'go for it' mean? Where do I put the dists, do we
> > have bin and src dists etc. Or is this a matter of the 
> subproject as well?
> 
> oh that. 
> 
> * Update jakarta-avalon-site CVS with new docs.
> * create distribution (I usually create a single distribution for 
> excalibur 
> components and include src in src.zip inside a "binary distribution).
> 
> Ideally a distribution would look like
> 
> foo-1.0/README.txt
> foo-1.0/LICENSE.txt
> foo-1.0/docs/**
> foo-1.0/src.zip (the source for foo)
> foo-1.0/foo-1.0.jar
> foo-1.0/foo-all-1.0.jar (contains foo and its dependencies)
> foo-1.0/lib/baz-2.3.jar (contains jars foo is dependent upon)
> 
> (The last two jars may be optional depending on personal preference).
> 
Ok, many thanks - that sounds easy :)

> >
> > Hmm, the only problem is the release() method of the component manager,
> > were we would have to cast to Component for these components - this
> > would not be an incompatible change as we did not release Cocoon
> > with the sourceresolve package, but it's inconsistent - there are
> > components were you have to cast and 95% you don't have to.
> > What do others thing on this?
> 
> No I mean the whole package should not be using Component - 
> instead Cocoon 
> should upgrade to Serviceable in all places possible ;)
> 
Ah, sorry, I didn't express myself proper - yes, I know that
you mean the whole package. But Cocoon itself uses much more
components than from the sourceresolve package, these are the 95%
I'm refering to.

Serviceable in all places...sounds great!

Carsten

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