On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Niclas Hedhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it recommended that the Gump Descriptor is in Gump or the
> Project??
Depends on what you do with it.
Forrest and Cocoon have the descriptors inside their modules since
they use the descriptors for other things they do during their normal
build AFAIU. Both descriptors contain a bunch of extra information
that is ignored by Gump.
For most Apache projects it doesn't make too much sense to keep the
descriptors inside a project specific module since you just limit the
number of hands that can fix it. Something that isn't widely
understood is that every Apache committer is a Gump committer, so the
number of people with access to the gump module is a superset of those
with access to any project specific module.
My recommendation would be to put the descriptors into the gump
module, unless you need them for your own.
One reason why the Avalon descriptors are in Avalon modules (they've
moved back and force a few times) has been, that whoever moved them
there hoped the avalon community would take ownership of them.
The avalon build system is complex and it really takes somebody from
the Avalon community who understands the system to get the descriptors
right. If the descriptors get moved to the gump module and nobody
cares for them, we haven't won anything. If the only people who can
access it are Avalon people, there may be a better chance to actually
get one of you guys involved in fixing it (thanks a lot for that,
Niclas!!).
Cheers
Stefan
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