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List:       alexandria-dev
Subject:    Re: cvs commit: jakarta-alexandria/proposal/gump/project jakarta-avalon-excalibur.xml
From:       Nicola Ken Barozzi <nicolaken () apache ! org>
Date:       2002-12-31 17:54:30
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Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> 
> Sam Ruby wrote:
> 
>> nicolaken@apache.org wrote:
>>
>>> nicolaken    2002/12/31 06:54:19
>>>
>>>   Modified:    proposal/gump/profile gump.xml
>>>   Removed:     proposal/gump/project jakarta-avalon-excalibur.xml
>>>   Log:
>>>   Putting back Gump descriptor in excalibur CVS to be able to work 
>>> together and get a fill excalibur Gump run.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you simply checkout jakarta-avalon-excalibur and try to build the 
>> docs target, it will fail (with or without gump).  The problem is 
>> hardcoded relative paths in each of the excalibur subproject targets. 
>> This has nothing to do with the gump descriptor.  See:
>>
>> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=avalon-dev&m=103963156000641&w=2
> 
> 
> MHO is that it part of a responsibility issue. In my organization when 
> things fail I move the responsability to those that can really influence 
> the thing. The fact that the descriptor is not the cause is not IMHO the 
> point. It's also quite possible that I'm wrong though.

Oh, and BTW, all Centipede projects *need* the descriptor to be in the 
CVS, because Centipede uses it for the build...

>> The plan was to move all these descriptors to a place where 
>> *everybody* could update them.

... so that each project has its descriptor in its CVS. And using the 
descriptor for centipede builds (ie normal builds) will make it more 
uptodate than it can ever be.

> We are waiting... (whistle-tune)

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Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
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