On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:55:19AM +0000, Paul Hammant wrote: > Peter, > > > > >Most newbies aren't going to build everything at one pop. I know I haven't > >done it at all except to test that it works. I just go into the required > >product directory and type ant there. I think even newbies are capable of > >reading BUILDING.txt and comprehending it. > > > With respect, this fails the five second test. > > We will have gone from a position of an easy build of a big jar (that > itself being an acceptance problem) to a difficult build of many small > jars.
Yes, but back then we didn't have dependencies like jmxri.jar for baxter, and altrmi for instrument-client. As excalibur grows, this problem gets worse. > I think the new MEME to be associated with Avalon would be "I can't > build it, I have no idea what it is or how useful it is". Absolutely agree that users should be able to type 'ant' in the root, and have something intelligible happen, not a compiler error. --Jeff > > - Paul > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
