Re: Donation of JAXP 1.3 Sources to Apache

David Crossley wrote:

>One thing that we must have this time around, is a
>version number on the xml-apis.jar filename. [1]
>I suppose that is an Xml-commons "build" issue.
>By the way, that build system is seriously in need
>of improvement, 
>
This is something i can work with you when upgrading to JAXP 1.3
APIs.

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>>As the sources would be put in a branch so it won't affect normal 
>>development but it would be good if we can restrict
>>large chunk of changes to the main trunk and fix only critical changes. 
>>It would help merging the changes back to main
>>trunk. What do others think ?
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>I am a little confused about your planned procedure.
>Are you suggesting to add a copy of the core code
>to Xerces/Xalan then moving it to Xml-commons later?
>
No.  We are donating JAXP 1.3 APIs + JAXP 1.3 (Reference Implmentation) RI.
JAXP 1.3 API will reside only at xml-commons.  

JAXP 1.3 RI components will reside either on xerces/xalan.  

>It worries me that we end up with copies.
>
I hope it is clear. Let me know if you see any issues.

Thanks,
Neeraj