This sounds like kind of a circular project dependency... Shouldn't this
be eliminated, perhaps by serializer moving to commons or some such?

Michael Glavassevich wrote:
> Nathan,
>
> I'm not sure what Maven users expect the repository layout to look like 
> but the second option sounds like it could confuse folks. IMHO, this jar 
> really belongs amongst the Xalan artifacts.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael Glavassevich
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/07/2007 11:53:40 PM:
>
>   
>> Assuming the serializer.jar is an important dependency for Xerces
>> functionality, then I'd say that's up to the Xerces team.
>>
>> There are basically two options -
>> * Wait for the next Xalan release, upload that under the 'xalan' group
>> ID and link Xerces to that serializer.jar in the as a dependency.
>> * Upload the serializer.jar now from Xerces package under the 'xerces'
>> group ID and link to that as a dependency.
>>
>> -Nathan
>>
>> On 2/7/07, Michael Glavassevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>     
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/07/2007 10:41:52 PM:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Sorry. I did get busy.
>>>>
>>>> The Maven group has a new, more simple means of uploading stuff to 
>>>>         
> the
>   
>>>> central repo now, so I started looking at this again the other day,
>>>> but I ran into a question that I was trying to track down and just 
>>>>         
> now
>   
>>>> gave up.
>>>>
>>>> The oddity is that the Xerces 2.9.0 contains a 'serializer.jar' that
>>>> I'd need to upload first, but the JAR's manifest says that it's
>>>> version 2.7.1 [1]. I assume this refers to the Xalan project, so I
>>>> looked there to get the "canonical" version of the JAR, but Xalan
>>>> currently only has a 2.7.0 release [2] and I verified that the
>>>> serializer.jar in the Xalan package states that it's 2.7.0.
>>>>
>>>> How did Xerces get this JAR? Is there going to be another Xalan 
>>>>         
> release
>   
>>> soon?
>>>
>>> The Xalan developers built it for us after they froze their code. 
>>>       
> Xerces
>   
>>> 2.9.0 was timed to coincide with Xalan 2.7.1. It was supposed to 
>>>       
> happen a
>   
>>> few days apart to mitigate the chicken and egg problem we had. Xalan
>>> needed a new Xerces release in order to enable the new DOM L3 
>>>       
> serializer
>   
>>> in their release. The new Xerces release needed the DOM L3 serializer 
>>>       
> from
>   
>>> Xalan.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately their release got delayed [3] for non-technical reasons. 
>>>       
> It
>   
>>> was tagged back in November but it still hasn't happened yet. I 
>>>       
> believe
>   
>>> it's supposed to happen soon. If you need to put serializer.jar up 
>>>       
> first,
>   
>>> you should probably wait for the Xalan release and get the jar from 
>>>       
> there.
>   
>>>> -Nathan
>>>>
>>>> [1] Snippet from manifest of serializer.jar
>>>> Implementation-Title: org.apache.xml.serializer
>>>> Implementation-Version: 2.7.1
>>>>
>>>> [2] http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/xalan-j/
>>>>         
>>> [3] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xalan-dev&m=116495476400467&w=2
>>>
>>> Michael Glavassevich
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>>> IBM Toronto Lab
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