Re: M2 migrations

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Henri Yandell <[email protected]> wrote:
> JNDI done :)
>
> RDC has a bunch of deps, so will be a little involved.
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I'll take this on when I look at the parent pom (hopefully in the coming week).


> Datetime
> depends on the deprecated request taglib for its tests, so we'll need
> to port to JSTL for the tests I imagine. i18n has a fun bit locale
> wise, that could be fun to set tests up for. Iterator is pretty easy I
> imagine.
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Henri Yandell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> String, Unstandard, Log, Random and Regexp have all been migrated to M2.
>>
>> This means:
>>
>> * M2 builds added, Ant builds removed.
>> * No longer can produce old servlet versions, everything is jsp
>> 2.0/servlet 2.4 currently. Probably worth a global update to 2.1/2.5
>> later and maybe putting the version in the parent pom.
>> * Examples wars not being built.
>> * Doc wars won't be built anymore - replaced by Maven Taglib plugin.
>> * Added to Continuum (vmbuild.apache.org)
>> * Likely to break in Gump as I don't know what I'm doing there.
>>
>> TODO:
>>
>> * Migrate others - Datetime, JNDI, i18n, RDC, Standard, Iterator.
>> * Replace examples with unit testing (Cactus? Probably as Standard
>> will want this).
>> * Include taglib docs in download.
>> * Include tld in download.
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Will keep the two items above in mind when I look at the m2 setup so far.


>> * Create M2 based parent site. Very tempted not to have subsites, but
>> to link the top site in directly given that I've always wanted to do
>> that.
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Not sure what you mean above. I'd say we have something like the
Commons site? (except the main site is also m2, rather than m1
ofcourse)

-Rahul


>> * Delete old build system once all are done.
>> * Update Regexp to JDK Regexp instead of ORO.
>>
>> If anyone wants to claim a particular task, or has other ones that
>> need doing, feel free to pipe up.
>>
>> Hen
>>