werken.xpath in the lib dir

[Jan Brinkmann <lu...@the-luckyduck.de>]

Hi,

I recently asked the werken.xpath team if it is possible that
they'll update their code to make a compile from source with 
current versions of different libraries possible. they
said that their project is dead and they won't. The problem
now is that I want to resolve a problem from the gentoo
(www.gentoo.org) bugzilla which says that velocity uses packed 
jars. that is right, and according to the new gentoo java policy 
we try to compile everything we can from the sources. a more 
important fact is that we dont want that packages such as
velocity, use external libs which are shipped with the
distribution (the tarball for example). instead we want to
remove those dependencies and replace them with gentoo own
packages. i'm nearly done for velocity with this, there is only
one package left which couldn't be build from source because
it is very old and otherwise nothing and nobody would use it
if we would add it in a binary only version. what do you developers 
think, is it possible that you remove werken.xpath in the near future
to replace it with an library which is maintained , more up2date 
and not deprecated? this would be nice and the job of people 
who try to include velocity into their distribution much easier.

-- Jan

Fwd: werken.xpath in the lib dir

[Shinobu Kawai <sh...@gmail.com>]

Hi Jan,

I'm forwarding your message to the developer list.  It looks more suitable here.
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jan Brinkmann <lu...@the-luckyduck.de>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:46:46 +0100
Subject: werken.xpath in the lib dir
To: velocity-user@jakarta.apache.org


Hi,

I recently asked the werken.xpath team if it is possible that
they'll update their code to make a compile from source with
current versions of different libraries possible. they
said that their project is dead and they won't. The problem
now is that I want to resolve a problem from the gentoo
(www.gentoo.org) bugzilla which says that velocity uses packed
jars. that is right, and according to the new gentoo java policy
we try to compile everything we can from the sources. a more
important fact is that we dont want that packages such as
velocity, use external libs which are shipped with the
distribution (the tarball for example). instead we want to
remove those dependencies and replace them with gentoo own
packages. i'm nearly done for velocity with this, there is only
one package left which couldn't be build from source because
it is very old and otherwise nothing and nobody would use it
if we would add it in a binary only version. what do you developers
think, is it possible that you remove werken.xpath in the near future
to replace it with an library which is maintained , more up2date
and not deprecated? this would be nice and the job of people
who try to include velocity into their distribution much easier.

-- Jan




-- 
Shinobu Kawai <sh...@gmail.com>