Auto Jar Downloading and Gump

[Jason van Zyl <jv...@zenplex.com>]

Hi Sam,

I have a first, very rudimentary auto jar downloader working from the
version deps in the project descriptors.

Could we discuss the layout of the jars you produce in the nightly builds?
Could we move toward something that could be used by the auto build system
so that people can use released versions and the latest nightlies if they
wish.

I was thinking that the main JAR archive could be listed by project so the
auto downloader can find them a little easier. Possibly just a different
view of what you have now using symlinks.

Then within the project directory either directories for the different
versions if we are going to keep version numbers out of the jars, or we can
put the jars all in the same directory if we are going to use version
numbers. Basically I would like to combine what's available under
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/ with what Gump produces night to create a
unified JAR archive.

Then do you think we could figure out a schedule and strategy for
distributing the archive to a number of machines. Maybe the same mirroring
strategy used for the apache http products?

I'm keep to keep working on the auto downloader and builder. So far only 4-5
people have tried to build stratum and they have all been successful. I
added simple proxy support so a user behind a firewall also built stratum
successfully.

I am now very excited! :-)

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jvz.

Jason van Zyl

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