I have quite different opinion here. There problem I am working on is possible memory leak in icu4jni library implementation, which is distributed in binary form as dependency in classlib. It is painful to do modification to it. Its build is not included in common build process for DRLVM, so I need to replace the binary with modified variant, there is also no debug symbols in the binary included in classlib, which makes imposible to debug bundled version.
The other part of the story, is when I finaly make a small changes in the library the entire binary should be replaced with new version. Instead of sending all the developers around a small incremental update people should download new version of the binary. *When all classlib will be in binary form debugging and updating will become nightmare.* I think the idea of automatic downloading required packages is bad. I would like to be able to checkout the version of all required libraries once and update it when _I_ want to (using incremental update to reduce network traffic) Global build system for different modules is also bad. Looking at KDE project - they have separate buildable modules with dependencies between modules (no circulate ones!). DRLVM's build system is global, but it allows to build separate component, which is positive. I know 3 giant opensource projects KDE, Gnome and Xorg, I think we should borrow some of their experience. -- Ivan 2006/5/17, Vladimir Gorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 5/16/06, Salikh Zakirov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Vladimir Gorr wrote: > > My personal opinion is we need to improve the existent build system for > > DRLVM contribution. > > ... > > Therefore there are no needs to compile them each of participants. It'd > be > > fine to have these sources pre-compiled (another snapshot?) > > The idea of having something precompiled looks close > to idea of HDK (Harmony Development Kit): to have a > binary bundle which makes development of Harmony as convenient as > possible. Yes, my suggestion is not new idea. I my opinion the HDK is a long-term task. All I suggested can be made at short time. We only need to slightly modify the build system and to get the image of third party tools. I suppose it will significantly make easy the life each of us and save money eventually :-).
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