Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 52188 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2002 20:41:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 17 Jul 2002 20:41:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 7494 invoked by uid 97); 17 Jul 2002 20:42:12 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 7478 invoked by uid 97); 17 Jul 2002 20:42:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Developers List" Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 7466 invoked by uid 98); 17 Jul 2002 20:42:11 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4198 created Apr 24 2002) Message-ID: <3D35D66C.9000605@apache.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 22:41:16 +0200 From: Nicola Ken Barozzi Reply-To: nicolaken@apache.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Splitting up optional.jar References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N costinm@covalent.net wrote: .. >>3. we need a manifest to handle versions and dependencies; it could be >>the normal manifest, or it is our own XML descriptor. > > > +1 > > With a very strong -1 on using (only ) a XML descriptor for things that > are well-defined for the normal manifest - it is important that generic > tools are able to manipulate the jar. I am a committer in Cocoon, Forrest, and have been using XML for quite some time. This said, if I would have the right to vote, I'd vote -1 for the xml descriptor, which seems to fit in the typical everything-is-a-nail anti-pattern. > So I think all dependency, version, etc should go to MANIFEST. > The task=classname should go in a properties file ( and I think > we should settle on a default location and name - like > META-INF/ant.properties ). Everything else should go to the > XML descriptor ( like docs, etc ). +1 > It would be fine if all the information are put in the XML descriptor > as long as the packaging process will generate MANIFEST and > ant.properties from the XML. +1 again -- Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: