Re: [Fwd: Bzip, tar, zip, etc]

[Nicola Ken Barozzi]

Henri Yandell wrote:

The problem with these is that the developer community never followed the
code. I assume this is some political issue in Jakarta I'm not aware of.

As far as I know, the Commons idea is that the group who donate the code
are seen as the ones who are the maintainers. The very concept of a
'Commons committer' is anathema to the Commons charter [although such a
thing does evolve over time].

bzip/tar/zip ended up just sitting in Commons waiting for a developer
community to arrive.

There are a few things here, in decreasing importance:

1) Code must be maintained to be worth using.
2) Code must have a community to be maintained.
3) The same code ought not to live in more than one place.
4) Reusable code ought to be in Jakarta Commons.

Well said, apart from 4 which I would say "could" instead of "ought to".

Now, if the Ant developers are the only ones doing 1), and they are the
only 2) for the code, then according to 3) the code should be in one
place. This place ought to be Jakarta Commons, but if this is not possible
then it should be in Ant as 4) is the least important of the 4 things.

This is why it was put in Commons, but the magic didn't happen ;-)

So, +1 to the Ant guys managing the code inside Commons, +0 to the Ant
guys offering the jars as a separate build.

I think the main issue with this is that Ant is somewhat at the top of the Gump dependency graph, and splitting things out is not something that fast and easy to do correctly.

MHO is that it would be possible to have Gump bootstrap these packages by using simple javac, give them to Ant that does the same, etc, but it gets complicated quite easily... dunno, I'm not going to do it, and someone has to for these to live in J-C without duplication...

So yes, I agree with you. But we have to see if someone is willing to do the Gump changes, or we have to fallback on the ant.multi-jar option.

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