At 07:18 12/4/01 -0700, Scott Sanders wrote:
>>> I am going to do it in the sandbox until I see it work and like it and
>>> can push other people toward it. After it becomes a little more clear,
>>> I will propose it to Commons.
>>
>>
>> I would like to see it as a fully fledged project eventually. If it is as
>> successful as I suspect it will be then it should be given independent
>> recognition. Keeping it in the sandbox is fine for the moment though.
>>
>Agreed, if that it what it takes. I really see it not being a lot of
>source code (java), but more repository (xml) code.
>
>So, right now in my head, Peter, you have planted the seed of the ant
>task with xml repositories. Eventually, I would envision that the ant
>task just goes over to Ant, and the xml stuff becomes its own 'project',
>just maintaining metadata about all the jars in the world...
Another thing we have to consider is dependencies between jars. ie if jar1
depends on jar2, which depends on jar3 version 1.0 etc. First things first
though ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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