Re: [Javaxdelta-devel] Can I help? SVN migration; Maven build; GDiff enhancements

[Torgeir V. <to...@po...>]

On 30 May 2008, at 09:41, Elias Ross wrote:

> I'm starting work on JBoss Envers, which is a project that tracks
> changes in database tables using Hibernate.
>
> I'm looking at being able to track changes to LOB (large objects) such
> as binary files and also CLOB or large text strings.

Welcome to the project.

> There are a couple of things I'd like to be able to do as well.
>
> It looks like, according to the mail archives, you are still "waiting"
> for a SVN migration from Source Forge. Could I help with this? I've
> done one migration before on a project on Source Forge. See:
> http://e-xml.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/e-xml/trunk/

I was waiting for sourceforge to do the conversion. I didn't have the  
time to hassle them to get it done though. I guess it could be done  
manually by cvs2svn and svnadmin as well.

> Secondly, I'd also like to fix up the repository layout to be more
> "Maven-like". For editing, Eclipse doesn't like your directory
> structure, so it would seem wise to update it to be more
> Eclipse-friendly. I would like to keep the build.xml and create a
> Maven pom.xml as well for build integration as well.


> Thirdly, I'd like to clean up the code. I do see a bunch of unused
> variables and junk floating around etc., though keep the public
> interface intact and compiling on JDK 1.3. There's also a number of
> potential issues where the return value from "read(byte b[] ...)"
> calls aren't checked.

> And lastly, something I'd like to add for dealing with text strings is
> a character-based encoding for GDIFF. This is so that changes can be
> stored in a VARCHAR or CLOB type column. I would basically create a
> sub-package called "com.nothome.delta.char" which could use character
> streams.


All of this sounds interesting. Can you provide a patch with your  
improvements? Once you've posted some code I can grant you committer  
access.

For my own part, I don't use javaxdelta in any production project,  
thus it gets less of my attention that it deserves, so anyone  
interested to work on it are welcome.


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Torgeir Veimo
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