Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
2008/12/18 Jason van Zyl > On 18-Dec-08, at 3:02 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: > >> Actually, I'm liking the Nixon name for these mixins >> > No chance. > So you're saying that chance is not a factor hmm sounds like a done deal so!

Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
LOL On 18-Dec-08, at 3:07 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: Actually, I'm liking the Nixon name for these mixins Sure, why not? We can just call mavenized mixins, Nixons. Now I just need a big pen to start

Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 18-Dec-08, at 3:02 PM, Stephen Connolly wrote: Actually, I'm liking the Nixon name for these mixins No chance. 2008/12/18 Ralph Goers On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Brian Fox wrote: It's not just about ignorig the ids. What about the distmgt info that would be needed to deploy... Or

Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Shane Isbell
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, I'm liking the Nixon name for these mixins Sure, why not? We can just call mavenized mixins, Nixons. Now I just need a big pen to start blacking out sections of the spec.

Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
Actually, I'm liking the Nixon name for these mixins 2008/12/18 Ralph Goers > > On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Brian Fox wrote: > > It's not just about ignorig the ids. What about the distmgt info that >> would be needed to deploy... Or filtering or processing of it? I think it's >> just better t

RE: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Brian E. Fox
Gotta love Iphone autocorrect ;-) -Original Message- From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:09 PM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification) 2008/12/18 Brian Fox > filtering

Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Ralph Goers
On Dec 18, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Brian Fox wrote: It's not just about ignorig the ids. What about the distmgt info that would be needed to deploy... Or filtering or processing of it? I think it's just better to keep processing of the Nixon separate. Yes, I agree (except with the Nixon name).

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-18 Thread Ralph Goers
On Dec 18, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: On 18-Dec-08, at 1:35 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: OK - I'm looking forward to seeing this. I understand the programmatic aspect in the use case you describe with the IDE, but not with something like the release capability. IIUC this would all

Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Shane Isbell
The Nixon is not crooked, it doesn't need processing. On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/12/18 Brian Fox > > > filtering or processing of it? I think it's just better to keep > processing > > of the Nixon separate. > > > > --Brian

Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Stephen Connolly
2008/12/18 Brian Fox > filtering or processing of it? I think it's just better to keep processing > of the Nixon separate. > > --Brian (mobile) I don't know that you'll ever get to process the Nixon... the best you can do is get him to do is resign, but his successor will probably pardon him so

Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Brian Fox
It's not just about ignorig the ids. What about the distmgt info that would be needed to deploy... Or filtering or processing of it? I think it's just better to keep processing of the Nixon separate. --Brian (mobile) On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Dec 18, 2008, a

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
y, December 18, 2008 2:57 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: POM construction specification On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Dec 17, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: And I've said multiple times that that isn't an adequate definition. Jason'

Re: Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
I think mixins are important, but I think in the short term trying to focus on bring the spec up to what is known to be the behavior right now is the focus. Once all those tests are done and the spec is comprehensive with an appendix, has example, and where tests refer to sections in the PO

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 18-Dec-08, at 1:35 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: OK - I'm looking forward to seeing this. I understand the programmatic aspect in the use case you describe with the IDE, but not with something like the release capability. IIUC this would allow our organization to create a standard way of doing

Mixins (was Re: POM construction specification)

2008-12-18 Thread Ralph Goers
On Dec 18, 2008, at 6:17 AM, Brian E. Fox wrote: I mentioned an idea in my review that seems to have been overlooked. I think a regular .pom in the repository shouldn't be able to be used as a "mixin". We should keep inheritance and mixins separate. The way I would do it is with a new packa

RE: POM construction specification

2008-12-18 Thread Brian E. Fox
e.isb...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:57 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: POM construction specification On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: > > >>> And I've said multiple times

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Shane Isbell
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: > > >>> And I've said multiple times that that isn't an adequate definition. >>> Jason's post provided a better clue but still doesn't define it. Your >>> definition is about like me telling

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Ralph Goers
On Dec 17, 2008, at 11:31 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: And I've said multiple times that that isn't an adequate definition. Jason's post provided a better clue but still doesn't define it. Your definition is about like me telling you that I am heading a JCP committee to define a new Java entit

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Ralph Goers
On Dec 17, 2008, at 11:15 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Ralph Goers >wrote: OK - I'm looking forward to seeing this. I understand the programmatic aspect in the use case you describe with the IDE, but not with something like the release capability. IIUC this wou

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Shane Isbell
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Ralph Goers > >wrote: >> >> >>> On Dec 17, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Shane Isbell wrote: >>> >>> I guess I really have no clue what function

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Ralph Goers
On Dec 17, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Ralph Goers >wrote: On Dec 17, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Shane Isbell wrote: I guess I really have no clue what functionality a mixin is supposed to provide or how it would be retrieved without a version or

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Shane Isbell
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > OK - I'm looking forward to seeing this. I understand the programmatic > aspect in the use case you describe with the IDE, but not with something > like the release capability. IIUC this would allow our organization to > create a standard way

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Shane Isbell
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Shane Isbell wrote: > >> >> >> >> >>> I guess I really have no clue what functionality a mixin is supposed to >>> provide or how it would be retrieved without a version or groupid. Is it >>> being suggested they w

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Ralph Goers
OK - I'm looking forward to seeing this. I understand the programmatic aspect in the use case you describe with the IDE, but not with something like the release capability. IIUC this would allow our organization to create a standard way of doing something and then somehow make it available

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 18-Dec-08, at 12:47 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Dec 17, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Shane Isbell wrote: I guess I really have no clue what functionality a mixin is supposed to provide or how it would be retrieved without a version or groupid. Is it being suggested they would be stored in the

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Ralph Goers
On Dec 17, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Shane Isbell wrote: I guess I really have no clue what functionality a mixin is supposed to provide or how it would be retrieved without a version or groupid. Is it being suggested they would be stored in the repo without that? I'd need a lot of convincin

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Brett Porter
On 18/12/2008, at 1:51 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: Comments below: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Brett Porter wrote: I fixed some typos - is it ok to regenerate the PDF? (mine comes out slightly different on the Mac but it's all there AFAICT). Just to add to what Brian and Ralph have al

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Shane Isbell
(group/artifact/version ones should be skipped, but if >> you're relocating everything in a group, it would make sense to do this at >> the top of that group tree pom) >> 3.5 I agree with Ralph here that Final is the wrong term. Private is more >> appropriate. >>

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-17 Thread Shane Isbell
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > Mine below. OK. As I read 2.2 it basically only says the first definition wins. 2.1 > talks about a collection of models, but it doesn't say anything about > dependency resolution, either directly or in its references to section 3. In > other

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-16 Thread Ralph Goers
Mine below. On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Shane Isbell wrote: Comments in line On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Ralph Goers >wrote: On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: This is for the general population but I'm nudging you Ralph because I know that you want to make some c

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-16 Thread Jason van Zyl
at the top of that group tree pom) 3.5 I agree with Ralph here that Final is the wrong term. Private is more appropriate. I started this in the morning and didn't finish yet so sending what I have. -Original Message- From: Ralph Goers [mailto:ralph.go...@dslextreme.com] Sent:

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-16 Thread Jason van Zyl
On 16-Dec-08, at 3:58 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: This is for the general population but I'm nudging you Ralph because I know that you want to make some changes for not requiring the version in the parent element. You should have warned me

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-16 Thread Shane Isbell
Comments in line On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > This is for the general population but I'm nudging you Ralph because I >> know that you want to make some changes for not requiring the version in the >> parent elemen

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-16 Thread Brett Porter
d this in the morning and didn't finish yet so sending what I have. -Original Message- From: Ralph Goers [mailto:ralph.go...@dslextreme.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:59 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: POM construction specification On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jas

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-16 Thread Ralph Goers
t I have. -Original Message- From: Ralph Goers [mailto:ralph.go...@dslextreme.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:59 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: POM construction specification On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: This is for the general population but

RE: POM construction specification

2008-12-16 Thread Brian E. Fox
ecember 16, 2008 3:59 AM To: Maven Developers List Subject: Re: POM construction specification On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > This is for the general population but I'm nudging you Ralph because > I know that you want to make some changes for not requiring th

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-16 Thread Ralph Goers
On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote: This is for the general population but I'm nudging you Ralph because I know that you want to make some changes for not requiring the version in the parent element. You should have warned me to have a glass of wine before attempting to

Re: POM construction specification

2008-12-15 Thread Brett Porter
Thanks, I'll take a look. I'm interested in finally continuing the work I started on a terse POM syntax earlier in the year and can start by spec'ing out the interoperability needs. On 16/12/2008, at 7:02 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: This is for the general population but I'm nudging you Ralph b