Re: [stellation-res] Repository Update (2)

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [stellation-res] Repository Update (2)


>
> On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 10:09 AM, Jim Wright - IBM Research
> wrote:
>
> > At 10:00 PM 9/18/2003, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> >>
> >> I found the following potentially missing or obsolete stuff.
> >>
> >> org.eclipse.stellation.scm.model
> >>
> >>    The directory org.eclipse.stellation.scm.model/doc/CVS should not
> >> be
> >> present
> >
> > Thanks for catching that.  I'll take care of it once I can access the
> > repository again (it was down when I checked just now).
>
> It's back up now. I also made a small change to the config that should
> hopefully help it get started automatically when something goes wrong.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >> org.eclipse.stellation.stim
> >>
> >>    Is the directory
> >> org.eclipse.stellation.stim/org/eclipse/stellation/stim/messages
> >> obsolete?
> >>    Is the directory
> >> org.eclipse.stellation.stim/org/eclipse/stellation/stim/model
> >> obsolete?
> >
> > Both directories are now obsolete.  They contained (incomplete) code
> > intended
> > to simulate the task server for GUI testing purposes, before the
> > actual task
> > server was ready for use.
> >
> >>    The directory
> >> org.eclipse.stellation.stim/org/eclipse/stellation/stim/util is
> >> empty. Is
> >> that correct?
> >
> > No.  There should be three files: ColorManager.java,
> > PixelConverter.java and
> > SWTUtil.java.  My note yesterday was incorrect: I restored these three
> > files
> > in my local workspace (along with purging obsolete files).  So, Stim
> > is not
> > currently buildable from repository source (sorry).
> >
> > I still haven't been able to check in my updates to
> > org.eclipse.stellation.stim,
> > first due to a technical problem with the 'svc' tool, and now because
> > the
> > repository seems to be down again <sigh>.  However, (once the
> > repository is up
> > again), you should still be able to work with the rest of the
> > codebase; stim
> > is not required by any other project.
> >
> > BTW - I assume that there is a 'src' directory in the middle of the
> > source pathnames you cite:
> >
> >     org.eclipse.stellation.stim/src/org/eclipse/stellation/stim/util
> > rather than
> >     org.eclipse.stellation.stim/org/eclipse/stellation/stim/util
> >
> > If not, that's a problem.
> >
> >
> >
> >> org.eclipse.stellation.util
> >>
> >>    The files XMLFile.java and XMLOutputStream.java are missing from
> >> org.eclipse.stellation.util/org/eclipse/stellation/util.
> >
> > There is no trace of those files in any of my local workspaces
> > (including
> > a couple dating back to the spring.  I suspect Mark removed or
> > consolidated
> > them; all Stellation projects build  (and 'svc' runs) without them.
> > Mark ?
>
> They were unused in the latest version of the system, so I got rid
> of them.
I had created these guys in anticipation of possibly using them. They were
part of the work that I did on generalizing XML access. I have copies on my
system.

> >
> >> In addition, there used to be the source for a bunch of papers plus
> >> the
> >> source for the web site. Do you plan to continue to maintain this in
> >> CVS for
> >> the time being?
> >
> > As far as I know, yes.  The website HTML and papers are published
> > using a
> > viewcvs script at present.  We could probably publish the files
> > directly
> > from the stellation.eclipse.org host (after all, we're hosting the
> > Wiki),
> > but porting the website doesn't seem like  a good use of time
> > currently.
>
> Exactly... Eclipse currently runs its websites through viewcvs, which
> is the main
> reason all that stuff is in CVS. It would be very time consuming to set
> things up so we didn't on our main eclipse.org pages. It's not worth
> the time. And there's no reason
> for all of that stuff to be in the Stellation repos.
>
>
Regards

Jonathan