commons-sandbox/vfs Failure

Sam Ruby Writes:
> dIon Gillard wrote:

>  >> I believe that the information that a pure bootstrapping approach
>  >> provides is quite valuable.
>  > I agree.

>  >> I don't know how to get this dones across all of the various
>  >> codebases, but I am willing to do my part.  Are there maven and/or
>  >> centipede developers out there who share this goal?
>  > I'm happy to do my part.

> dIon, can you take a look at 
> http://cvs.apache.org/builds/gump/2002-11-24/commons-vfs.html ?  This 
> built successfully on 2002-11-20, but failed on 2002-11-21.
Sure...I'm talking to Adam about how he managed to do it now :)

> It seems that the build.xml is generated, and has a hardcoded path in it 


> that makes no sense on my Linux box.  I could override it in the project 


> definition, but that too is generated and in the jakarta-commons/vfs cvs 


> tree.

> One solution would be to correct the maven.xml and/or maven itself and 
> check in a corrected build.xml and/or gump.xml.
Once I know what the cause is, I'll fix it in Maven.

> Another solution would be to ignore the generated gump.xml and construct 


> one by hand that works, perhaps checking it into gump/project directory.

> What would you suggest?

I'd prefer that it gets fixed in Maven.


> P.S.  To compound this problem, there was a problem whereby the nag 
> messages were not being sent for this component.  This is now fixed.
Is this because of the descriptor?
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