I just discovered the jrcs project in a renewed search for a diff algorithm implementation compatible with the ASF license.

I searched the archives for an indication if this is a living project or not and read the trail from september following the proposal to remove it from Commons/Jakarta and thought I perceived at least a lazy consensus to increase the project visibility instead of scrubbing it. I saw some cvs activity after that, and a post on users which seemed to confirm that direction.

But now I see that jrcs is gone from the Commons navigation, apparently removed in this commit with no further explanation:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=jakarta-commons-dev&m=107020830121776&w=2


Was this a mistake which went unnoticed or did something happen off list?

I'm interested particularly in the diff portion of the project and have written a quick first stab at an Ant task based on it because I need it for work. I'd like to see about contributing it, some utility code to make usage simpler, and possibly developing some supporting code for Cocoon (where I'm active) such as a generator which creates an xml representation of a diff between files, etc. The rcs code could prove useful elsewhere in the Cocoon project which has struggled trying to provide some cvs support without a cvs project which isn't GPL'd.

TIA,
Geoff


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