[Opensource] Re: [Expresso CVS:Commits 5.3] *** Important Commit ***

[Peter A. Pilgrim]

Michael Rimov wrote:
> At 09:49 PM 8/1/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> 
>> One thing that I would like to change is to actually rename the
>> important struts 1.1 JAR files. So that we get the version number of the
>> distribution in the filename.
>>
>> commons-beanutils.jar   =>      commons-beanutils-1.1fcs.jar
>> commons-collections.jar =>      commons-collections-1.1fcs.jar
>>
>> ..
>>
>> struts.jar              =>      struts-1.1fcs.jar
>>
>> Is this a good idea?
>>
>> Or we can use the actual jakarta version numbers. Is this a good idea?
> 
> 
> 
> #1 - I'm using the actual jakarta version numbers.  Folks seem to like 
> that they could identify the component.  That way, issue-wise, they can 
> track whatever they need through the jakarta site rather than having to 
> provide additional version information.

It is just that `struts.jar' does not quite tell you what version of
Struts it is, just by inspection.

> 
> #2 - Personally, I'm against having the version numbers in the file 
> names because I've spent more than one debugging session trying to track 
> down some really odd behavior to only find out that it was due to 
> failing to remove the old version so I had, for example, log4j1.2.8 and 
> log4j1.2.7 both in the same directory when I copied in the updates.
> 
Classpath issues, typical.

> I prefer using the jar file manifests for versioning whenever possible.  
> In fact, I've been submitting as bugs any incorrect version numbers in 
> the manifests to the respective apache projects.  You might want to do 
> the same if you come across some particulars that don't have it set up.
> 
> As an aside, you can quickly check the package version number by going 
> to the Status controller. [Application -> Things That Are Happening 
> Now]  There is a new tab for 'Installed Packages' that allows you to 
> browse through everything and installed and displays version information 
> as defined by the jar manifests.

Boy! I am getting rapidly de-skilled in IT, this is new thing that I did
not know about in Expresso.

If never occured that such as simple thing was possible or even useful!

         Package packages[] = java.lang.Package.getPackages();

Delicious!

> 
> For the .war and LE-war distributions, the classes are jarred with the 
> appropriate version information in the manifests as well.
> 

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