[Proposal] Connector sub projects

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Now that we have a skeleton Java Connector Framework (which has now been 
tested on a real Plugin for Simal [1]) I would like to propose the 
creation of a new sub project for this code.

There are two main reasons for this:

Firstly if we keep the code in the main SVN tree then we force plugin 
developers to have a dependency on the whole of Wookie. Really all they 
need is the Connector Framework.

Secondly, we are a long way from being able to do a release of the 
Wookie server (GPL dependencies) but it would be useful to do releases 
of the connector framework (if only to make it easier to use in the 
Simal project).

An additional reason is that if others implement connectors in other 
languages we would need to put these outside the main tree anyway, so we 
should really have a single place for all.

I therefore propose a new area in SVN:

trunk/connector/README
trunk/connector/java
trunk/connector/php
trunk/connector/python

Each of these folders would contain the necessary files to build and 
release the relevant connector framework independently of Wookie and 
other frameworks.

Comments/Questions?

Ross

[1] http://simal.googlecode.com

Re: [Proposal] Connector sub projects

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

On 26/02/2010 16:56, Ross Gardler wrote:
> Now that we have a skeleton Java Connector Framework (which has now been
> tested on a real Plugin for Simal [1]) I would like to propose the
> creation of a new sub project for this code.

I'm going to go with lazy consensus on this proposal and make the 
necessary changes in the next day or so. The change will be reversible 
if anyone chooses to object.

Ross

>
> There are two main reasons for this:
>
> Firstly if we keep the code in the main SVN tree then we force plugin
> developers to have a dependency on the whole of Wookie. Really all they
> need is the Connector Framework.
>
> Secondly, we are a long way from being able to do a release of the
> Wookie server (GPL dependencies) but it would be useful to do releases
> of the connector framework (if only to make it easier to use in the
> Simal project).
>
> An additional reason is that if others implement connectors in other
> languages we would need to put these outside the main tree anyway, so we
> should really have a single place for all.
>
> I therefore propose a new area in SVN:
>
> trunk/connector/README
> trunk/connector/java
> trunk/connector/php
> trunk/connector/python
>
> Each of these folders would contain the necessary files to build and
> release the relevant connector framework independently of Wookie and
> other frameworks.
>
> Comments/Questions?
>
> Ross
>
> [1] http://simal.googlecode.com