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Posted to xml-commons-dev@xerces.apache.org by Shane Curcuru <sh...@yahoo.com> on 2003/10/21 16:24:03 UTC
Re obsolete xml-apis.jar in ant1.6 [was ant1.6beta2]
Dear Antites:
Yes, the xml-commons team is working on getting an official relase of our
external component, xml-apis.jar, which would be suitable for using in your
1.6 release. (big thanks to Stefan for kicking me awake on this)
However, there are a number of issues including getting TCK compliance for
this (which is theoretically legally required when shipping code that
implements JAXP, etc.) so I'm not sure what our timeframe will be. Could
someone send me directly (I'm not on dev@ant) your estimated 1.6 ship date
and the last date for code changes for it?
If worst comes to worst (and we're late), then you should simply bundle the
xml-apis.jar that comes with the version of Xerces you are including (as
someone already suggested). This is not an official xml-commons release,
but it is properly version matched to that Xerces, and will have better
support for more recent versions of Xalan as well. The code that generated
that xml-apis.jar *should* have been tagged with the same tag as the
xml-xerces code that generated that release, although I haven't checked
this specific build yet. Note also that this is xml-commons/java/external
code from the tck-jaxp-1_2_0 branch, *not* from the HEAD of xml-commons.
Sorry if this introduces more confusion than help!
- Shane
Re: Re obsolete xml-apis.jar in ant1.6 [was ant1.6beta2]
Posted by Torsten Curdt <tc...@vafer.org>.
Shane Curcuru wrote:
> Dear Antites:
> Yes, the xml-commons team is working on getting an official relase of
> our external component, xml-apis.jar, which would be suitable for using
> in your 1.6 release. (big thanks to Stefan for kicking me awake on this)
So we Cocoon'ers are not at alone having troubles with the xml-apis.jar
from time to time :)
> If worst comes to worst (and we're late), then you should simply bundle
> the xml-apis.jar that comes with the version of Xerces you are including
> (as someone already suggested). This is not an official xml-commons
> release, but it is properly version matched to that Xerces, and will
> have better support for more recent versions of Xalan as well. The code
> that generated that xml-apis.jar *should* have been tagged with the same
> tag as the xml-xerces code that generated that release, although I
> haven't checked this specific build yet. Note also that this is
> xml-commons/java/external code from the tck-jaxp-1_2_0 branch, *not*
> from the HEAD of xml-commons.
This might already have been brought up but what about adding a version
number to the xml-apis.jar? I guess we (at Cocoon) spend quite an amount
of time finding bugs that actually were nothing more than mismachted
xerces/xalan/xml-api jars.
--
Torsten
Re: obsolete xml-apis.jar in ant1.6 [was ant1.6beta2]
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Shane Curcuru <sh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> the xml-commons team is working on getting an official relase of our
> external component, xml-apis.jar, which would be suitable for using
> in your 1.6 release.
Good news 8-)
> Could someone send me directly (I'm not on dev@ant) your estimated
> 1.6 ship date and the last date for code changes for it?
Currently Antoine (our release manager for 1.6) is planing the final
release for 1.6 at Oct 30th. If we get reports on major bugs, this
may very well push us to a later date. Anyway, I'm rather sure that a
1.6 release will see a 1.6.1 successor in not too distant future -
people don't like to test betas.
> If worst comes to worst (and we're late), then you should simply
> bundle the xml-apis.jar that comes with the version of Xerces you
> are including (as someone already suggested).
Sounds like a good fallback option to me.
Thanks
Stefan
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Re: Re obsolete xml-apis.jar in ant1.6 [was ant1.6beta2]
Posted by Torsten Curdt <tc...@vafer.org>.
Shane Curcuru wrote:
> Dear Antites:
> Yes, the xml-commons team is working on getting an official relase of
> our external component, xml-apis.jar, which would be suitable for using
> in your 1.6 release. (big thanks to Stefan for kicking me awake on this)
So we Cocoon'ers are not at alone having troubles with the xml-apis.jar
from time to time :)
> If worst comes to worst (and we're late), then you should simply bundle
> the xml-apis.jar that comes with the version of Xerces you are including
> (as someone already suggested). This is not an official xml-commons
> release, but it is properly version matched to that Xerces, and will
> have better support for more recent versions of Xalan as well. The code
> that generated that xml-apis.jar *should* have been tagged with the same
> tag as the xml-xerces code that generated that release, although I
> haven't checked this specific build yet. Note also that this is
> xml-commons/java/external code from the tck-jaxp-1_2_0 branch, *not*
> from the HEAD of xml-commons.
This might already have been brought up but what about adding a version
number to the xml-apis.jar? I guess we (at Cocoon) spend quite an amount
of time finding bugs that actually were nothing more than mismachted
xerces/xalan/xml-api jars.
--
Torsten
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Re: obsolete xml-apis.jar in ant1.6 [was ant1.6beta2]
Posted by Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Shane Curcuru <sh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> the xml-commons team is working on getting an official relase of our
> external component, xml-apis.jar, which would be suitable for using
> in your 1.6 release.
Good news 8-)
> Could someone send me directly (I'm not on dev@ant) your estimated
> 1.6 ship date and the last date for code changes for it?
Currently Antoine (our release manager for 1.6) is planing the final
release for 1.6 at Oct 30th. If we get reports on major bugs, this
may very well push us to a later date. Anyway, I'm rather sure that a
1.6 release will see a 1.6.1 successor in not too distant future -
people don't like to test betas.
> If worst comes to worst (and we're late), then you should simply
> bundle the xml-apis.jar that comes with the version of Xerces you
> are including (as someone already suggested).
Sounds like a good fallback option to me.
Thanks
Stefan