Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact gump-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list gump@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 40573 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2003 18:59:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 8 Dec 2003 18:59:19 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATQbL-0005fi-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:59:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gump@jakarta.apache.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATQbK-0005fa-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:59:22 +0100 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATQbK-0003jd-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:59:22 +0100 From: Leo Simons Subject: Re: Replacing Packages? Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:59:21 +0100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <123901c3bd9e$d1e23090$d3931f43@tsws1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <123901c3bd9e$d1e23090$d3931f43@tsws1> Sender: news X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Adam R. B. Jack wrote: > Hmm, I wonder if this has been proposed before, it seems kinda obvious... > > Other than the distastefulness of having jars in CVS or SVN, why not replace > packaged projects with those in modules? We could have a gump-packages > module (or modules) that houses the jars, so we'd no longer need machine > access in order to update jars. I see a few projects create 'mini-projects' > for their packages stuff, so why don't we do this centrally for the main > ones? > > Thoughts? no-can-do. We have a licensing issue there (can't redistribute the sun jars, for example). We might be able to do this if we keep the cvs repo private though. Not sure. - LSD