Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-19 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 09:00, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2004 20:40, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > Huh? You don't want to share dependencies anywhere? > > No. Just to say that > xerces -> 2.4.0 > avalon-logkit -> 1.2 > jakarta-bcel -> 5.2 > log4j -> 1.2.1 > > and so on. > > > > I wan

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 19 April 2004 20:40, Jason van Zyl wrote: > Huh? You don't want to share dependencies anywhere? No. Just to say that xerces -> 2.4.0 avalon-logkit -> 1.2 jakarta-bcel -> 5.2 log4j -> 1.2.1 and so on. > > I want to have ONE place, where I can list the versions to use > > for each arti

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-19 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 07:57, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2004 02:05, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > > To help you could give me a little tree description of your build and > > describe how you would like things shared. > > > I would assume that ideally, you would like to a parent POM in

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 19 April 2004 20:07, Vincent Massol wrote: > This defeats the goal of centralizing dependency definitions. We find it > better to have: > > &xml-apis; This is really good tip... :o) Niclas -- +-//---+ | http://www.bali.ac | | http://niclas.hedhman.or

RE: XML Catalogs

2004-04-19 Thread Jörg Schaible
Niclas Hedhman wrote on Monday, April 19, 2004 2:01 PM: > On Monday 19 April 2004 04:11, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> So my /myproject/build/entities directory contains the project.ent >> and all the files that define the real entities like characters.ent, >> versions.ent, ... >> >> project.ent co

RE: XML Catalogs

2004-04-19 Thread Vincent Massol
> -Original Message- > From: Niclas Hedhman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 April 2004 13:50 > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: XML Catalogs > > > Ok. We understand this pattern, and IMHO it is not applicable at all, > since > you can't h

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 19 April 2004 04:11, Jörg Schaible wrote: > So my /myproject/build/entities directory contains the project.ent and all > the files that define the real entities like characters.ent, > versions.ent, ... > > project.ent contains the lines: > > %character-entities; > %version-entities; >

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 19 April 2004 02:05, Jason van Zyl wrote: > To help you could give me a little tree description of your build and > describe how you would like things shared. > I would assume that ideally, you would like to a parent POM in very > top-level directory in order to share as much as possibl

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-19 Thread Niclas Hedhman
soon as a new artifact is inserted into the system (either external or internal). I guess I have no other choice (since there is no interest in Maven for catalogs) to change my plugin so that it either search/replace the mammoth large file or recreates all the index.ent with the content in the ce

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Jörg Schaible
Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Sunday 18 April 2004 23:39, Jason van Zyl wrote: > >> You pretty gave no explanation as to why catalogs would be a good thing >> other than saying: > > We are trying (@Avalon) the hardest to centralize the versioning of our > 70+ versi

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:35, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2004 01:27, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > so if the geronimo build is made to work then I > > think Avalon will have a working model from which to copy. > > Ok... that, I guess, is something in the near future. To help you could

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Tomasz Pik
bob mcwhirter wrote: Ah, catalogs are actually a wonderful thing. They translate identifiers to something system-specific, typically. They are mircales in SGML and XML has been knocked for not having them previously. Has the w3c done a catalog spec? OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:35, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2004 01:27, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > > > We are trying (@Avalon) the hardest to centralize the versioning of our > > > 70+ versioned artifacts, their cross-dependencies and all the external > > > dependencies that are involved

RE: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Vincent Massol
nal Message- > From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 April 2004 19:27 > To: Maven Developers List > Subject: Re: XML Catalogs > > On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 12:23, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > On Sunday 18 April 2004 23:39, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > > &g

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread bob mcwhirter
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Jason van Zyl wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:19, bob mcwhirter wrote: > > Ah, catalogs are actually a wonderful thing. > > Maybe so, but I still don't think we need them and if the xpp3 parser > doesn't support them then we can't use

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 19 April 2004 01:27, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > We are trying (@Avalon) the hardest to centralize the versioning of our > > 70+ versioned artifacts, their cross-dependencies and all the external > > dependencies that are involved. > > I believe the fellow who manages development said he ha

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 13:19, bob mcwhirter wrote: > Ah, catalogs are actually a wonderful thing. Maybe so, but I still don't think we need them and if the xpp3 parser doesn't support them then we can't use them because I'm not using xerces just to get catalog support. I

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 12:23, Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Sunday 18 April 2004 23:39, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > > You pretty gave no explanation as to why catalogs would be a good thing > > other than saying: > > We are trying (@Avalon) the hardest to centralize

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Monday 19 April 2004 01:19, bob mcwhirter wrote: > Has the w3c done a catalog spec? Not sure, but I think they either have, or are in the process of doing it... Niclas -- +-//---+ | http://www.bali.ac | | http://niclas.hedhman.org | +--//-

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread bob mcwhirter
Ah, catalogs are actually a wonderful thing. They translate identifiers to something system-specific, typically. They are mircales in SGML and XML has been knocked for not having them previously. Has the w3c done a catalog spec? -bob On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Jason van Zyl wrote: >

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Sunday 18 April 2004 23:39, Jason van Zyl wrote: > You pretty gave no explanation as to why catalogs would be a good thing > other than saying: We are trying (@Avalon) the hardest to centralize the versioning of our 70+ versioned artifacts, their cross-dependencies and all the ex

Re: XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Jason van Zyl
e interested, which probably means we're not to keen on the idea, which most likely means your patch won't get integrated. You pretty gave no explanation as to why catalogs would be a good thing other than saying: --- I think it could solve a lot of http://w

XML Catalogs

2004-04-18 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Hi, Since noone reacted on my quest for XML Catalog support in Maven, I am patching Maven myself to handle it. I have 2 questions; 1. I'll submit a patch back to the community, so which branch should I make the diff against. 2. In MavenUtils.getNonJellyProject(), there is a 1), 2) & 3) steps

Catalogs

2004-04-06 Thread Niclas Hedhman
Hi, Does Maven contain Catalog support? http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/resolver/resolver-article.html I think it could solve a lot of http://wiki.codehaus.org/maven/EnsureProjectConsistencyWithEntities And if it would only be a matter of import org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.CatalogRe