Steve- Thank you very much for writing this document, it will really help us as we move into development on a major Java project for which we intended to use Ant, jUnit, and the automated build processes described in the Martin Fowler article you cite.
And I agree that placing the Ant docs only one or two clicks away from the main Ant page would be great, particularly for lazy and ignorant newbies like me. :-) Sincerest regards, Chris Todd Software Engineer Alabanza Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-----Original Message----- >From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 8:08 PM >To: ant >Subject: SUBMIT[2] production.html > > > >Right, here is my now vastly expanded and revised document on using ant in >production. > >Changes > >-lots more stuff including: directory structures, cross platform issues, >when to get an ant update > >-a bit of an introduction and some tailpiece on putting it all together > >-links to the tasks as they are named in the paper > >I also titled the document 'Ant in Anger: using ant in a production >environment', as one of the lessons I've learned from getting papers >published or read is that the title is nearly everything. > >As it stands I have now documented the practices and process I have learned >through a few team projects using ant as the build tool. That does not make >it complete -other people doing different projects with different team >structures will have learned different lessons; -so other peoples >contributions are going to be be needed to. > >In particular, if there are practices I suggest that are utterly broken, >better directory structures for complex projects or simply more cross >platform issues, these need to go in. > >Incidentally, I think it would be very handy if the ant documentation were >actually indexed so as to be a click or two from the ant home page. Right >now you get the stuff if you download ant, but otherwise it is kind of >fiddly -you have to know where to look. Far more convenient would >be a quick >link to the documentation bundle, particularly the task list. > >Steve > >------------ >"plan on your service having a regular downtime. It will anyway" > >Win32 Hacking http://www.iseran.com/Win32/ >Alpine Cycling http://www.iseran.com/Atlas/ >
