On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the whole build breaking last night because some lameass sourceforge > developer doesn't know how to write gump descriptors (even if it was > me) annoys the hell out of me. It should not be possible.
Absolutely true. Gump shouldn't break. Note that this is not limited to Gumpy, "traditional" Gump dies in Jenny as well when a circular dependency has been detected - it's just that our Gump installations went on and used the generated build.sh and update.sh files of the night before. > The basic cause for that happening was the use of the 'href' > attribute to link to remote descriptors accessed via webcvs. The basic cause was that somebody modified a descriptor without checking whether anything got broken by the change. ;-) href adds to this problem a lot, I agree. If you modify a descriptor that is in Gump's module, you can run "ant verify" before you commit the change - this is a lot harder to do (custom profile) if your descriptor is referenced via href. And delays like we still see them for anoncvs at sourceforge certainly make things worse. On the other hand, href has some potential that we shouldn't throw away. The ant-contrib project has two descriptors that are more or less maintained by me, no big deal, but take a look at the dom testsuite descriptors. Curt Arnold has written them. In particular, look at the very top of the descriptor for the copyright message and the license - this could never live in a Apache metadata module for legal reasons. Well, maybe it could since the license is less restrictive than the ASL, but you get the point. No webapp would enable anybody to put a different license on the descriptor, for whatever reason he/she should choose to do so. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
