So... when do we see updates to the proposals? ;-> > -----Original Message----- > From: James Duncan Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Did somebody say Shut up and Write? :) > > > On 12/19/00 9:30 PM, "Joshua Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Both proposals have merit, but niether one discusses what the > problem to be > > solved is. > > Hrm. Ok. That should be more obvious, yes. > > The problem to be solved is cross platform building and packaging of Java > based projects. That was the original goal -- and is still the clearest > problem to be solved.
Great! That is just the type of simple statement needed. > All other problems that can be solved are tangential to that original > problem case. While it would be nice to use Ant to build c/c++ files -- > actually Configure/Make serve some really good needs here that just don't > happen in the Java world. There's no reason why all of this can't be done > with Ant as currently implemented even, however it's not the original > problem domain. Same with XML/XSLT/Website builds. Possible, but it *is* > important to know what the highest order bits are. The XML/XSLT/Website is a bit more closely associated with Java, for us J2EE server side geeks. :) > An installer should be a separate > program/product/entity. Where there's synergy, yes, good, but otherwise, > it's not a high order bit. Good. In every organization I have worked in, this has been a very separate step in the development process. However, there's nothing stopping anyone from employing some clever code re-use.
