What does: "allow them to do the follow-on checkout w/o having it do the build" mean?
Regards, Tim Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > QuickStart > ======== > > One of the things I was planning to add to our front-page somewhere is > the same thing you find when you buy some kind of consumer electronics, > like a camera - a "quick start" page. > We need two of them - "QuickStart for Harmony Users" and "Quickstart for > Harmony Contributors", which would be how to get and use the snapshot, > and how to checkout and build the code, respectively. > > For the latter, I was going to advocate that people use the > enhanced/trunk approach, as that's a single checkout for them that turns > into the maintainable classlib and drlvm trees. I do need to add a > target or two to the /trunk/build.xml script to allow them to do the > follow-on checkout w/o having it do the build, but that's easy. > > Does anyone have a problem with me advocating this method? It still the > standard classlib and DRLVM trees that a person can svn update, do > diffs, create patches, and if a committer, checkin. But it places them > in a very clear and useful on-disk relationship with each other, that > can then be used for building the snapshot. > > FAQ > ==== > > This goes w/o saying what we're going to do :) First question will be > "How do I add a new FAQ entry?" with a template for the xdoc. I was > thinking that this should be hosted on the wiki, but there's something > really nice about the permanence of the main site. Maybe the last entry > on the site will be "Where are tehre more FAQs?" with a pointer to a > wiki page, and then if people don't want to do patches to main page, > they can enter them there, and we can harvest easily. > > geir > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
