Hey Helder On 12.02.2011 16:32:23 Helder Magalhães wrote: > Hi Jeremias and everyone, > > Sorry for the delay in answering, I did notice your > build-simplification branch creation but was too overflow to keep > up...
No apologies required. > > > Working towards preparing the color branch for a merge into trunk I > > noticed how much code duplication there is in the Ant build and how many > > hard-coded JAR names are in manifest Class-Path entries or security > > policy files. > > I got a few minor fixes for the builld.xml file. Should I commit them > to the trunk? Absolutely. Don't feel blocked by anything I announced to do but still haven't done. ;-) > > > Batik currently has an Ant 1.6.5 in lib\build. I would suggest that this > > be removed in favor of an Ant installed on the developer's machine. We > > don't have any negative experience on this in FOP that I can remember. > > I'm always building with my local Ant installation rather than the > > build.bat from Batik anyway. > > I guess it's fair to assume a developer to install Ant. In the > meantime, I was preparing an upgrade Ant to 1.7.1 (I memory doesn't > fail, it's the latest version compatible with Java 1.4 but I need to > double check this). > > In the meantime, I do like the convenience of a build script. Unless > the Ant-equivalent commands are easy enough to memorize, of course. > ;-) > > > > And the crimson.jar in lib\build is by now > > an ancient relic. ;-) > > This is where one needs to have some care. I'm also preparing a few > fixes for the build scripts of "contrib/rasterizertask" which were > broken for a similar reason (a Java parser unavailable and reference > to crimson was broken). > > > > If any of you have any thoughts on the above, I'd love to hear them. > > What do you think? Should I commit my stuff to the trunk ASAP (as bugs > are fixed) and integration will be performed afterward or should I try > to integrate applicable stuff in the branch already? (I'd vote for the > first approach!) I can always merge into the build branch. Just do what you think is useful. > > > Thanks, > > Jeremias Maerki > > Thank you very much for all the hard work in getting us rid of those > broken build nagging messages! :-) Hold that thought until I've really gotten rid of the com.sun problem. ;-) > Cheers, > Helder > > > -- > Helder "Lthere" Magalhães > http://heldermagalhaes.com/ Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
