Stephen McConnell wrote: [...]
In order to resolve this problem I would like to import the modified James sources into avalon-sandbox to enable James and Avalon people to dig into this.Seeing that this was coming, I had suggested some time back to create Avalon Components and have James friends be part of it.
The proposal would be to make a avalon-components CVS module and move there (or symlink) all the components in excalibur and Cornerstone CVS.
Then unify the build of the two systems and give access to James developers that are willing to help.
It has been said that package names shouldn't change, and I agree. This is just about moving the components in a single CVS space.
It has also been said that it's a hassle for little gain. Well, in fact it really seems so.
So we could as well still make the Avalon Components subproject, have access for James friends (and Turbine and others if/when needed), and keep the two repositories for now. Basically the same gains without the hassle. New components would go to excalibur, and our Avalon Components project would have a double personality (e-c) till we get to a completely unified component system.
Now, this poses a problem though. Fortress is in excalibur, but it's not a component, but a container. Given that we are uniting the framework and the container under a single CVS module, and that Fortress is the first step in that direction given the tentative roadmap in STATUS, IMHO it could make sense to move it with the framework in the new "avalon" repository. More practically, rename jakarta-avalon to avalon, make jakarta-avalon, symlink to concrete repo. Then move the Fortress dirs under "avalon".
The bottom line: IMHO it would be a bonus for us if outer-avalon project friends collaborate with us on the components, and the above suggestion is just one possible way of doing it.
Thoughts, suggestions, ideas?
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