Thanks for the info. Maybe I misunderstood, but I had requested before the release that the
source for snapshots be made available from Cocoon's site. I thought that
this had been agreed to. It is a royal pain for me to do CVS checkouts from
work. Also, I'd like to know with 100% certainty that I actually have the
same source Cocoon used to build with. I see snapshots for commons-jexl,
commons-jxpath, excalibur-store, and rhino along with excalibur-component.
Am I supposed to do the same thing and hope for the best with them as well?
Unfortunately, that's probably exactly what you'll need to do. I don't recall whether there was a consensus on keeping the sources with the snapshots but I think you're right about that. Unfortunately, consensus that something should happen does not translate always to action - especially when there is no formal [VOTE] thread. Sorry about that - I think it's a pain too. However, the chance that you could do a checkout by date and get different sources is a lower probability threat - you can review the commit logs (many of them are sent to a publicly archived mail list such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and usually determine with confidence that what you have is correct. The big arguments in favor of the source-snapshot were: 1) firewall cvs checkout problems 2) cvs history lost by repository reshuffling. The second won't be a problem with recent snapshots.
Of course, maybe Carsten did do a source snapshot of those projects but he just did the release. Most of those were probably checked in before the release and before that discussion.
Geoff
I guess Carsten is out of town? Does anybody else know how to get theYes, though. Check out by date should work and I'm pretty sure you'll find by browsing the cvs that the volume of commits on excalibur-component is low enough that you won't have any commits around that date.
source for the snapshot of excalibur-component used in Cocoon. I looked at
the avalon-excalibur in CVS and didn't see any tags that match. Am I
supposed to check out by the date and hope that nothing else got changed
after it was checked out for Cocoon?
