Thanks, Sebb. See below.

On Aug 14, 2011, at 9:50 AM, sebb wrote:

> On 14 August 2011 16:25, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>> This is a vote to release Apache Commons VFS 2.0.
>> 
>> Since the last candidate the package name was changed from vfs to vfs2. Many 
>> of the Jira issues were reviewed and those that required a possibly 
>> incompatible API change were addressed. Most instances of StringBuffer were 
>> replaced with StringBuilder. Some synchronization issues were addressed. 
>> Many javadoc and some checkstyle issues were addressed. The filesystem 
>> documentation was improved to list file system capabilities.
>> 
>> [ ] +1 release it
>> [ ] +0 go ahead I don't care
>> [X] -1 no, do not release it because...
> 
> Notice file still shows 2010.
> 
> It also refers to the (optional) Javamail library.
> Since that is not actually included in any of the archives, it should
> not be mentioned.
> 
> [If it were necessary to include a mention of JavaMail in NOTICE, then
> it would be necessary to include the corresponding license in LICENSE]
> 
> ==
> 
> Not a blocker, but a pain for checking the release:
> - lots of source files contain @version $Revision $. This uses local
> time, which means my checkout of SVN does not match the source
> archives.
> 
> There are some EOL issues:
> 
> svn ps svn:eol-style native README.txt
> svn ps svn:eol-style native RELEASE-NOTES.txt
> svn ps svn:eol-style native osgi/MANIFEST.MF
> svn ps svn:eol-style native src/changes/announcement.vm
> 
> I'm not convinced that the code really needs to be
> binary-incompatible, but that is a separate discussion.
> 
> However, the release notes ought to mention code is not source
> compatible with VFS 1.x and that the package name has changed.
> 
> mvn install produces some warnings:
> 
> [WARNING] Ignoring project type pom - supportedProjectTypes = [jar, bundle]
> [WARNING] DEPRECATED [tasks]: Use target instead

I can't fix the above two lines. They are caused by changes in commons-parent 
version 21.

> [WARNING] DEPRECATED [systemProperties]: Use systemPropertyVariables instead.
> 
> also the error
> 
> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
> [INFO] 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Error assembling JAR
> 
> Embedded error: Manifest file:
> D:\RC\commons-vfs2-distribution-2.0-src-zip\commons-vfs-2.0\core\org.apache.maven.model.Model@718242
> does not exist.

I got a response from Dennis Lundberg. I forwarded that. It appears I will have 
to create yet another module to put the common resources such as 
checkstyle.xml. This, of course, is also going to end up being a new artifact 
in the Maven repo. <sigh>.

> 
> This is a blocker.
> 
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