Hi, The serial transport module, a transport implementation, using serial port (RS232) was moved to sandbox due to licences issues.
Here a simple resume : the serial transport use the RXTX, a java serial communication lib. The problem is that RXTX is LGPL licensed. You would may so ask "so what's the matter ?". Well as our build is automated, when you try to build whole MINA trnuk, it's pulling the needed libs in your local repository and will automatically download the LGPL dependency. as far as I can understand it's it's a problem for some users and ASF, for grabbing LGPL licensed jar automatic fashion. That why the serial transport was moved temporary to sandbox, well as we say in France : the temporary is made for duration.. :) and the situation is here for few month. After discussing around with other commiters, here the possible two solutions : 1# keep serial transport outside of MINA, make it a separate project due to his LGPL dependency nature 2# or as suggested by Emmanuel, make the building of serial transport optional (passing some arguments to mvn during the building) so the user can choose to build the LGPL depended or not module. apparently some Apache projects already do that for javamail. My preference go for 2# because it will be easier to maintain up-to-date with MINA trunk, and even it's the audioence is small, it's making MINa the only Java netroking lib with easy serial comm :) WDYT ? Julien
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