Re: Cactus Release Archives

On 29/03/2008, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25/03/2008, Petar Tahchiev <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > Hi everybody,
>  >
>  >  I am following this tutorial:
>  >
>  >  http://wiki.apache.org/HttpComponents/HttpComponentsCoreReleaseProcess
>  >
>  >  and making it for Cactus. So I want to invite you all to test the archives I
>  >  have uploaded
>  >  here:
>  >
>  >  http://people.apache.org/dist/jakarta/cactus/
>  >
>  >  and report problems if you find some.
>
>
> Not sure it's useful to include the bz2 archives; although they are
>  slightly smaller, the user-base is much smaller...
>
>  The licenses/README.txt file does not seem to agree with the jars in
>  the lib directory.
>
>  Also, several of the jars in the lib directory are quite old versions;
>  if possible, they should be updated.
>
>  The generated cactus jars must contain NOTICE and LICENSE files (e.g.
>  in the META-INF directory)
>
>  It would be useful if the cactus jar manifests included the following
>  attributes:
>
>  Built-By: xxxxx
>  Implementation-Title: Jakarta Cactus
>  Implementation-Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
>  Implementation-Vendor-Id: org.apache
>  Implementation-Version: 1.8-SNAPSHOT
>  Specification-Title: Jakarta Cactus
>  Specification-Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
>  Specification-Version: 1.8-SNAPSHOT
>  Build-Jdk: 1.5.0_12 (e.g.)
>  X-Compile-Source-JDK: 1.3 (e.g.)
>  X-Compile-Target-JDK: 1.3 (e.g.)
>
>  There seem to be some problems with SVN file properties; I've fixed
>  most of them in trunk.
>
>  Did you create the archives from trunk?
>  There are some discrepancies between that and the source archive.
>

Just noticed that the pom.xml does not specify the source and target
java versions.
It should also have inceptionYear

Might be an idea to use a property for the version so the individual
poms don't have to be updated.

The eclipse .classpath file looks a bit odd - it seems to have lots of
entries that don't seem to be required.

>
>  >  If no problems occur, I will continue with the next steps of the tutorial
>  >  and make
>  >  "official" release archives and cast a vote upon them.
>  >
>  >  Thank you all.
>  >
>  >  P.S. You can also have a look at the new Cactus web-site I have uploaded
>  >  here:
>  >
>  >  http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/1.8.0/
>  >
>  >  I am currently doing final test upon it and then I will upload it as
>  >  "official" Cactus site.
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Regards, Petar!
>  >  Karlovo, Bulgaria.
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