On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Simon Nash <[email protected]> wrote:
> Simon Nash wrote:
>>
>> Simon Laws wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Simon Nash <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm doing the deletions for TUSCANY-3729.  One of the modules on the
>>>> list to be deleted from the 1.6.1 release is modules/workspace-manager.
>>>> It's on this list because it wasn't in the binary distributions for
>>>> 1.5.1 or 1.6.  However it was released to the maven repo for both
>>>> these releases and it's not clear to me why it wasn't included in the
>>>> binary distributions as well.
>>>>
>>>> This module was created as a result of TUSCANY-3174.  From reading the
>>>> comments on this JIRA I'm not sure whether or not the code reached a
>>>> state of completion and usefulness.  There's a working itest for this
>>>> module which contains quite a lot of code.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone clarify whether this module is an abandoned experiment or
>>>> something that could be useful to the community?
>>>>
>>>>  Simon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Simon
>>>
>>> I didn't spot this before. It's a set of interfaces that allow you to
>>> fire up Tuscany, add extensions programmatically and then read and
>>> manipulate a collection of contributions (a workspace). It does work
>>> but I don't know that anyone is actually using it. On this basis I
>>> don't mind that it's omitted from the release as long as it's not
>>> removed from the code base.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for clarifying this.  I'm happy either way but I would like
>> the source distro / maven repo / binary distro to be consistent,
>> which they aren't at present.
>>
>>  From this explanation it sounds like this is treating a workspace as
>> something separate from its use within the domain manager.  Have I
>> understood this correctly?  What's the user scenario that could take
>> advantage of this capability?
>>
>>  Simon
>>
>>
>>
> As I'm still not clear on the user scenario for workspace-manager, I'm
> going to delete modules/workspace-manager and itest/workspace-manager
> from the 1.6.1 branch.  I'll leave them in the 1.x trunk.
>
>  Simon
>
>

OK fair enough, Thanks Simon

Simon

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