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Mark Struberg edited comment on MSANDBOX-51 at 8/15/11 2:41 AM:
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The problem with Os.java is that plexus-utils got forked off a very old version
of ant. The Ant version has much improved yet and got the fields made private,
etc. So it's not really easy to just bridge.
If possible, then we should use commons projects and bridge over to them. I'll
try to look at the Os.java from commons.
My main 'aha-effect' was that most of the plexus-utils classes are only wrongly
declared (C) The Codehaus. This really got only very lately replaced the
original '(c) Apache Software Foundation' as most classes are forks from:
* Ant
* commons
* Velocity
* Anakia
* maven-utils-1.x
And as such it's legally and also politically no problem to just take the
sources back to the ASF SVN and we are _not_ forced to rewrite everything from
scratch without looking at the original sources.
*edit* I'm *not* blaming Codehaus for anything, they just provided the hosting
and have nothing to do with changing the license headers.
was (Author: struberg):
The problem with Os.java is that plexus-utils got forked off a very old
version of ant. The Ant version has much improved yet and got the fields made
private, etc. So it's not really easy to just bridge.
If possible, then we should use commons projects and bridge over to them. I'll
try to look at the Os.java from commons.
My main 'aha-effect' was that most of the plexus-utils classes are only wrongly
declared (C) The Codehaus. This really got only very lately replaced the
original '(c) Apache Software Foundation' as most classes are forks from:
* Ant
* commons
* Velocity
* Anakia
* maven-utils-1.x
And as such it's legally and also politically no problem to just take the
sources back to the ASF SVN and we are _not_ forced to rewrite everything from
scratch without looking at the original sources.
> Rewrite Plexus Utils classes at the ASF from scratch
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MSANDBOX-51
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSANDBOX-51
> Project: Maven 2.x Sandbox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Mark Struberg
>
> plexus-utils are 85% written by ASF committers, but we still don't have a IP
> cleared history.
> For cleaning this up we aim to rewrite those classes from scratch in ASF
> maven sandbox.
> The strategy is the following:
> 1. create unit tests for the existing plexus classes
> 2. create a new implementation from scratch
> 3. the new implementation must be a binary API compatible drop-in replacement
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