Re: Re: api support

Jesse Glick wrote:

> Vitezslav Stejskal wrote:
>
>> I am not sure about the plans of apisupport module projectization 
>> (CCing Jesse as he might now more).
>
>
> I don't, actually. I did convert apisupport to use the 3.5 Classpath 
> API some time ago, so if that is actually implemented compatibly in 
> Projects then a lot of stuff may work. It still uses Datasystems of 
> course, and doesn't use any Projects APIs. Probably it could be built 
> on the projects branch (just added to the module config), even without 
> being fully "projectized", but that's all I know. Certainly something 
> like <nbinstaller> does not intrinsically need to know anything about 
> Projects at all.

OK, I can try to add the apisupport into the projects build. Then people 
can try to use it and get some feedback. I can't promise to have time 
for fixing potential problems unless the solution will be really 
trivial, but at least we will know which problems we have to solve :-(.

>
> Note - the trunk version of apisupport does need the trunk version of 
> the ant module, and last I checked no one had merged in the trunk 
> changes to the ant module into the prj_40_prototype branch - it is 
> probably a simple merge since the Projects-specific stuff is in a 
> separate submodule anyway, should only be necessary to tweak the 
> manifest dependencies.

Aha, that shouldn't be hard, I'll do that.

-vita