At 11:17 31/3/01 -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>Hm. Ok. There is a current 'best practices' suggestion for Jakarta,
>and I was sticking to that. We do the same in Velocity, use 'build',
>and that works out fine, but we are small in size and scope.
All the ones that inherit from Jon's way use build/ for tools I believe and
another set who inherited from another group use build/ for intermediate
files. The best practices document has been amended to indicate these
things ;)
>> tools/bin/ for tool related scipts
>> tools/lib/ for tool related jars
>>
>> and instead of having scripts at top of directory structure just have a
>> build.xml and maybe build.[sh|bat] to wrap around ant.
>
>Fundamentally, what I was hoping for is a build.sh/bat to wrap around
>Ant - nothing more, other than also including Ant so it's easy to build.
Also may want to include anakia/stylebook and junit because most projects
will use that.
>> At 07:34 31/3/01 -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>> ><aside>
>> >I want to note that I think having each component under the same CVS
>> >tree will be ungainly as we acquire more components. It will be
>> >important to be able to download individual nightly builds of each
>> >component, as well as the whole thing...
>> ></aside>
>>
>> gump has entries for the j2eeunit component and can easily be switched to
>> nightly build mode. I would recomend that anyone who wants gumping/nightly
>> builds contact Sam/Alexandria with details.
>
>I wasn't thinking about Gump here (I just assumed that we would get Gump
>to test rigorously...)
>
>By nightly builds, I misspoke - I meant snapshot. We should be able to
>offer the nightly snapshot of each component if you want to just focus
>on one piece, and not have to drag the entire thing down when it gets
>big with all those great projects that are pouring in.
gump and it's multicolored coat can do that for you - be nice to Sam and
create directory /www/jakarta.apache.org/build/commons/nightly/ and some
magice will occur ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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