Hi Joseph, The mail below of yours within the trail, hasn't received responses as yet it seems. Just thought of replying.
Your work on XalanJ's build migration to Maven looks nice to me. You're the owner of that process and implementation :) I don't find any errors or defects, with the XalanJ's build migration to Maven that you're working on (that looks to me, has achieved nice progress). I'm hoping that, XalanJ XSLT 1.0's next release in near future for example, like with release id 2.7.4 shall contain a Maven build implementation for that XalanJ release and may probably be available on Maven central repos as well. There's also little bit of work, going on and off these days on XalanJ's dev repos xalan-j_xslt3.0 for an XSLT 3.0 implementation. The XalanJ build implementation on that dev repos branch, is an existing XalanJ ant based build. I'm hoping that, when the XalanJ XSLT 1.0 release like 2.7.4 as mentioned above may get published, we'll most likely make an effort on the XalanJ dev branch xalan-j_xslt3.0 to convert its build implementation to Maven, using the Maven build design concepts of your current work on XalanJ XSLT 1.0 implementation. Many thanks. On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 1:16 AM Joseph Kessselman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been working on the build process for Xalan, simplifying it and > migrating it to Maven. In the process I'm making a few changes such as > moving the xsltc samples into actual Java packages for clarity. > > Currently, two aspcts of the Ant-based build that I have *not* > replicated are the compressed "distribution archives": > > xalan-j_2_7_3-bin.tar.gz (where "bin" includes source of the samples) > xalan-j_2_7_3-bin.zip > > xalan-j_2_7_3-src.tar.gz (where "src" includes a copy of xalan-test) > xalan-j_2_7_3-src.zip > > and the per-sample "executable" archives: > > xalanservlet.war > xsltcapplet.jar > xsltcbrazil.jar > xsltcejb.jar > xsltcservlet.jar > > The xsltc samples are now incorporated in samples.jar, since the > packages keep them from stepping on each other. I am not currently > generating the xalanservlet.war file. > > Question for the community: How important is it to continue producing > these? My impression is that the distribution archives were primarily > needed in the days before git and maven and such, when the primary mode > of downloading was via a link from the website and bandwidth was far > more limited. And I don't know if anyone still cares about having canned > executables for the xsltc samples. > > If there is still a community need for any of these, I can do the > additional work to persuade the Maven build to generate them... but > since that would be a bit messy, I'd rather avoid (or defer) that work > if I can. > > User opinions, please? -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
