Adding the Actor Migration Kit.

  Kit consists of:
    1) The StashingActor which adopts an interface similar to Akka.
    2) Props mockup for creating Akka like code
    3) Pattern mockup
    4) Test cases for every step in the migration.
    5) MigrationSystem which will paired on the Akka side.

  Review of the code : @phaller
  Review of the build: @jsuereth

3 files changed, 75 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/build/maven/maven-deploy.xml b/src/build/maven/maven-deploy.xml
index ac0f8f745b..7ab54f81c3 100644
--- a/src/build/maven/maven-deploy.xml
+++ b/src/build/maven/maven-deploy.xml
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@
         <deploy-local name="scala-compiler" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}" />
         <deploy-local-plugin name="continuations" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-local name="scala-actors" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}" />
+        <deploy-local name="scala-actors-migration" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}" />
         <deploy-local name="scala-swing" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-local name="scalap" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-local name="scala-partest" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
@@ -172,6 +173,7 @@
         <deploy-remote name="scala-compiler" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}" />
         <deploy-remote name="scala-swing" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-remote name="scala-actors" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
+        <deploy-remote name="scala-actors-migration" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-remote name="scalap" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-remote name="scala-partest" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-remote-plugin name="continuations" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/> 
@@ -239,6 +241,7 @@
         <deploy-remote-signed name="scala-compiler" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}" />
         <deploy-remote-signed name="scala-swing" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-remote-signed name="scala-actors" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
+        <deploy-remote-signed name="scala-actors-migration" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-remote-signed name="scalap" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
         <deploy-remote-signed name="scala-partest" version="@{version}" repository="@{repository}"/>
       </sequential>
diff --git a/src/build/maven/scala-actors-migration.pom b/src/build/maven/scala-actors-migration.pom
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93fc34ece9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/build/maven/scala-actors-migration.pom
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+<project
+        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+        xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+        <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+        <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
+        <artifactId>scala-actors-migration</artifactId>
+        <packaging>jar</packaging>
+        <version>@VERSION@</version>
+  <name>Scala Migration Kit</name>
+  <description>Migration kit that enables easy transition from the Scala Actors to Akka.</description>
+  <url>http://www.scala-lang.org/</url>
+  <inceptionYear>2012</inceptionYear>
+  <organization>
+      <name>LAMP/EPFL</name>
+      <url>http://lamp.epfl.ch/</url>
+   </organization>
+   <licenses>
+      <license>
+         <name>BSD-like</name>
+         <url>http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/license.html
+         </url>
+         <distribution>repo</distribution>
+      </license>
+   </licenses>
+   <scm>
+      <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/scala/scala.git</connection>
+      <url>https://github.com/scala/scala.git</url>
+   </scm>
+   <issueManagement>
+      <system>JIRA</system>
+      <url>https://issues.scala-lang.org/</url>
+   </issueManagement>
+        <dependencies>
+                <dependency>
+                        <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
+                        <version>@VERSION@</version>
+                </dependency>
+                <dependency>
+                        <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>scala-actors</artifactId>
+                        <version>@VERSION@</version>
+                </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
+        <distributionManagement>
+                <repository>
+                        <id>scala-tools.org</id>
+                        <url>@RELEASE_REPOSITORY@</url>
+                </repository>
+                <snapshotRepository>
+                        <id>scala-tools.org</id>
+                        <url>@SNAPSHOT_REPOSITORY@</url>
+                        <uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion>
+                </snapshotRepository>
+        </distributionManagement>
+  <developers>
+    <developer>
+      <id>lamp</id>
+      <name>EPFL LAMP</name>
+    </developer>
+    <developer>
+      <id>Typesafe</id>
+      <name>Typesafe, Inc.</name>
+    </developer>
+  </developers>
+</project>
diff --git a/src/build/pack.xml b/src/build/pack.xml
index f96c6b9799..956beaef88 100644
--- a/src/build/pack.xml
+++ b/src/build/pack.xml
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ MAIN DISTRIBUTION PACKAGING
     <mvn-copy-lib mvn.artifact.name="scala-compiler"/>
     <mvn-copy-lib mvn.artifact.name="scala-swing"/>
     <mvn-copy-lib mvn.artifact.name="scala-actors"/>
+    <mvn-copy-lib mvn.artifact.name="scala-actors-migration"/>
     <mvn-copy-lib mvn.artifact.name="scala-partest"/>
     <mvn-copy-lib mvn.artifact.name="scalap"/>
   </target>
@@ -201,6 +202,11 @@ MAIN DISTRIBUTION PACKAGING
          basedir="${build-docs.dir}/continuations-plugin">
       <include name="**/*"/>
     </jar>
+    <jar destfile="${dists.dir}/maven/${version.number}/scala-actors-migration/scala-actors-migration-docs.jar"
+           basedir="${build-docs.dir}/actors-migration">
+        <include name="**/*"/>
+    </jar>
+
     <!-- TODO - Scala swing and actors should maybe have thier own jar, but creating it is SLOW. -->
     <copy tofile="${dists.dir}/maven/${version.number}/scala-swing/scala-swing-docs.jar"
           file="${dists.dir}/maven/${version.number}/scala-library/scala-library-docs.jar"/>