RE: First comments from a newbee

Francois,

>	I have downloaded Krysalis-Version last week, and here are some questions
and comments on

Thank you, feedback & insights from "another pair of eyes" is invaluable.
This is much appreciated.

>    - the download link (under "Community") was difficult to find for me

Hmm, we recently changed the forrest skin to use dynamic menus, so the
community menu (which was open/visible) is now "hiding stuff". Good point.
We'll see what we can do to make "download" more clear.

>    - what tool to read the XML documentation ? (I guess it's Forrest which
>	need Cocoon ...). An HTML version with the binary package could be
friendly.

Actually, the XML documentation is what generates the HTML site which
updates this frequently:

	http://www.krysalis.org/version/

Yeah, this might be kinda weird (not having a locally pre-built readable
output), but the output is pretty nice. If you like you could install
forrest (comes with cocoon inside) and run it on a local install to get an
exact match for a certain release (or CVS HEAD extract). That said, the nice
thing about the site is you get some extras for free:

	http://www.krysalis.org/version/junit/index.html
	http://www.krysalis.org/version/javadocs/index.html

That all said, I do see your point, I'll noodle on it.

>	    - VersionTool said it use a file d:\version.constraints which don't
>	exists. I found this file int src/main but modifications have no effect on
>	VersionTool. After some time and tries, it seems that VersionTool uses the
version.constraints of the
>	jar file. Is it the only way ? What if no jar file ?

VersionTool looks for all *.constraints file in the classpath, plus inside
the jars inside the classpath. The name "version.contraints" is misleading,
it was "those constraints for version itself" not "all/only constraints".

The intention is you create site.constraints (or dev.constraints,
qa.constraints, whatever) and it combines that with constraints that
products ship. The intention is to allow software publishers (developers/qa)
to combine their experiences with operators (users).

>	Right now, constraints management without modification of packages (if
possible) is my first interest for >	Krysalis-Version.

Excellent, mine too...

regards

Adam






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