[jbossseam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBSEAM-1532) include jar-versions.xml file

[Dan Allen (JIRA)]

include jar-versions.xml file
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                 Key: JBSEAM-1532
                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-1532
             Project: JBoss Seam
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: Documentation
    Affects Versions: 1.3.0.ALPHA
         Environment: seam CVS HEAD
            Reporter: Dan Allen
            Priority: Minor


It would be so helpful if a jar-versions.xml file could be kept up to date in the root of the seam source code to track the versions of the bundle libraries, in the absence of other solutions.  This idea comes from the JBoss AS, which uses this file to communicate the versions of libraries used.

Documenting the versions helps:

1. developers, who may find challenge in combining APIs of libraries without knowing the version
2. users who are unable to determine the contents of what they downloaded
3. for legal reasons, just in case there are differences in licenses amongst releases of third party products, to protect seam itself as well as integrators of seam.

With all that said, the better solution is to use ant-ivy or maven2 to get the jar files out of the source code.  But I digress.

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