Dear Ant friends,
I'm writing you because I have a proposal to make on behalf of the Kryalis PMC http://www.krysalis.org/.
(please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the CC)
We would like to donate code and community efforts that are now in Krysalis Centipede, Ruper, Version to Ant.
- Ruper is a resource updater (like jar downloader) - Version is a versioning library - Centipede is high level build system built on Ant and Gump, that uses Ruper and Forrest
For those that don't know Centipede, it's an Ant distro, turbocharged by tasks that read the Gump descriptor and resolve projects from it, and that download antlibs that use the descriptor data for easy user builds.
The import and xmlproperty stuff now in Ant 1.6, for example, come from Centipede.
We have a project descriptor and dependency resolving based on the Gump descriptor, a resource download system from repositories, and we are working well on a versioning library. Lately we have also gained a developer that is actively working on adding CC integration to Centipede.
As it has come out from preliminary contacts with the Ant PMC, probably the best thing for now is just to get the Ant devs to know us better, and better understand where to position these efforts in the Ant project.
Maybe then it's better to start of in the sandbox... let's see:
We now have five repositories involved:
- krysalis-centipede (the distro) \ - krysalis-cents (the antlibs) > Centipede - krysalis-ant-tasks (the tasks) /
- krysalis-ruper (the downloader) - krysalis-version (versioning code)
We have some committers that we'd propose to have access to the Ant sandbox (btw, is there a CVS module for it? In this case it would not be a bad thing).
So we should move the contents of these repositories as subdirectories in ant-sandbox, give access to our active developers to the sandbox, and continue development of Centipede+others on the ant-dev list?
Let's start by saying that moving krysalis-ruper and krysalis-version to the sandbox is ok.
For centipede and ant-tasks... we have test release cycles going on, would that be a problem? We also need some web space...
As for krysalis-cents it's quite big, especially WRT the directories (Oh, we'll have to leave out the GPL cents, but that's not a problem) Hmmm...
Thoughts?
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Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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