Re: [Ant-contrib-developers] CVS mess

[Marcel R. <ru...@sw...>]

Curt Arnold wrote:

> As in the previous message, the CVS is an unsightly mess right now.  I 
> wanted to get everyones opinion on the appropriate way to clean it up.  
> Please vote +1, 0 or -1 on each item
> 
>  
> 
> Issue one: ForEach, PropertyCopy, Switch and OSFamily
> 
>  
> 
> There are at least three copies of these tasks in the CVS in src/main, 
> build/src/main, src/src/main.  I assume that all the copies are 
> identical.  None of these tasks I assume are sufficient for their own 
> sub-project and jar, so I guess these need to be the start of library of 
> small tasks.  I would suggest that this would be the start of 
> ant-contrib.jar, basically a home for small but useful tasks.


Great, i always missed ForEach and Switch.
+1


> 
>  
> 
> 1. Change the package name in these tasks to net.sf.antcontrib


+1

(What about org/apache/tools/ant/contrib?
Makes it easier to donnate it later to apache.)


> 
> 2. Move the source into ant-contrib/src/net/sf/antcontrib


+1


> 
> 3. Remove all files in the build and src moduled, but place a 
> DEAD_DIRECTORY or other file that would indicate to a someone browsing 
> the CVS that they did not need to go any further.



What about a directory "not_merged_yet", containing
all code not yet merged or not yet deleted

Using Adams code as a base, possibly the other
contributors are willing to merge their extensions
to Adams.
So we don't miss any feature.


> Issue two: base-implementations
> 
>  
> 
> My intentions in base-implementations was to provide a reference to our 
> starting implementations.  However, since the MARC mailing list archive 
> does have the attached zip files, it would probably be better just to 
> place a few HTML files that frame the archived messages and not have any 
> code there.
> 
>  
> 
> 4 Move Adam's initial unification work from 
> cpptasks/base-implementations/Murdoch/src to cpptasks/src


+1


> 
> 5 Remove all existing content from cpptasks/base-implementations
> 
> 6. Provide HTML files linking to archives of the previous C++ task 
> submissions to the ant-dev mailing list.


see 3.



Thanks, i'm really looking forward to use these modules!


Marcel


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