Re: JAMES-418 and SVN tagging

[peter royal <pr...@apache.org>]

On Dec 30, 2005, at 1:27 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>> I built peter sources after an upgrade of avalon/excalibur  
>> libraries to
>> the latest official stable releases. I also removed jdk 1.3
>> compatibility jars that are not needed for james 2.3.0 that will be
>> 1.4+ only.
>
> So you did the build, or Peter?

I just shared copies of the source that I had been using.

>> IIRC peter sources are from
>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/avalon/cvs-migration-snapshot/ 
>> avalon-phoenix/
>
>> I don't know what is the svn version used in the peter version. I  
>> also
>> checked the latest trunk and it worked fine.
>
> I just want to identify exactly which code is used, and then tag it  
> so that we don't have a repeat of an earlier fiasco, when no one  
> knew which code had been used for our Phoenix drop, and it was  
> unmaintainable.

What I had sent was an older CVS checkout, the code in the svn url  
above is a bit newer, but very similar.

>> It would be cool if proyal, leosimons or niclas could tag that  
>> release
>> as phoenix 4.2 or something similar.
>
> If you'll just pick a branch of Phoenix, do the build and test, and  
> let me know which code you picked, I'll see that the branch is  
> tagged.  Far as I'm concerned, the tag can be called FOR_JAMES_2.3.

You may just want to import what I sent into the james repo and  
maintain your own copy, might be best :)
-pete