progress
Stephen McConnell
mcconnell at dpml.net
Mon Jan 9 21:29:07 EST 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev-dpml-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:dev-dpml-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carel Paradis
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:58 PM
> To: DPML Development
> Subject: Re: progress
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen McConnell" <mcconnell at dpml.net>
> To: "'DPML Development'" <dev-dpml at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 21:00
> Subject: progress
>
>
> >
> > Over the last couple of weeks we have:
> >
> > * resolved issues concerning the building of the DPML
> > system under the Unix environment - including resolution
> > of the bootstrap script and corrections to handling of
> > runtime tool scripts
> >
> > * resolved issues related to build and runtime support
> > under the JDK 1.5 environment including resolution of
> > xslt issue in the doc task, resolving issues in the
> > checkstyle report creation process, and resolving
> > issues in the javadoc generation process
> >
> > * bumped the version of checkstyle from 3.8.1 to 4.1
> > adding support for Java 1.5 source validation
> >
> > * bumped the version of Jetty from 5.1.1 to 5.1.6 and
> > resolved a number of deprecation issues in the process
> >
> > * incorporated unit test sources into the overall DPML
> > checkstyle validation resulting in the resolution of
> > some 9,300 formatting and test documentation issues
> >
> > * resolved issues concerning the CLI2 date validator
> >
> > * completed some outstanding TODO items concerning
> > component context and state change listener handling
> >
> > Outstanding issue I'm aware of include:
> >
> > * File r/w validation - earlier issues with the file
> > vaidators hidden file behaviour uncovered issues at
> > the JVM level and I'm assuming our current issue on the
> > *nix platform is probably a similar cause.
> >
> > * The part API could do with namespace separation of local
> > versus remote interfaces which would make things easier to
> > understand (as things stand it works fine but its not
> > as intuitive as it could be)
> >
> > * A couple of exception classes used in transit/model
> > should be moved up to the transit package in particular
> > the UnknownKeyException and the DuplicateKeyException.
> >
> > Of the above the FileValidator is the immediate issue (the others
> > more a case of general improvements). My immediate feeling is that
> > we should remove res/write validation in the cli package (for now)
> > and move ahead with creating a new milestone binary.
> >
>
> +1 here for removing read/write validation into FileValidator.
>
> > Any opinions?
>
> The support for cygwin has not been tested on my side. I need
> to install
> cygwin on my machine to do some tests. However, I have no
> experience with
> this platform. Also, I never tested the installation of the
> distribution
> package (tar.gz) on Linux.
>
> Cheers, Carel
OK - I'll take care of the FileValidator update and creation of a binary.
We can then focus on banary validation on respective platforms.
/Steve.
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