On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:54, Geoff Howard wrote: > 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.
The code being maintained by the primary author now lives here: http://cvs.codehaus.org/viewcvs.cgi/jrcs/?root=codehaus > TIA, > Geoff > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
