Ian, The short answer is that we wanted a simple build process that helps with the following:
* Minifying all our JavaScript and CSS files for distribution (for speed) * Building a single, concatenated file containing all Fluid JavaScript code (also for speed) * Building and zipping simple distribution package containing all Fluid code * Automatically validating of our code using JSLint While the Maven JSTools Plugin you mention does some of these tasks, it doesn't seem to handle minification and concatenation unless I've overlooked something. More to the point, we found it much easier to write a simple Ant script to do this than continue to wrangle with Maven. It worked for us, but other projects will inevitably have different needs. Colin On 31-Mar-08, at 7:01 PM, Ian Boston wrote: > I think I remember that Fluid were doing some work on build systems > for JS using Ant, > because Maven2 didnt do what was required, and was a pain to get > running. > > Did you look at http://dev.abiss.gr/mvn-jstools/usage.html and if you > did ..... what are the extra things that you are doing outside > this... just out of interest ? > > Thanks > Ian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fluid-work mailing list > [email protected] > http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work --- Colin Clark Technical Lead, Fluid Project Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto http://fluidproject.org _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
