At 06:16 11/4/01 -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
>> I will say this again because no one seems to listen but doing this is a
>> good way to screw your users. "build" is used in many projects to indicate
>> intermediate files. For newbies it also requires intimate knowledge of
>> build practices before they can locate the base build.xml file. Hence why
>> this directory should not exist and file sshould exist in base directory.
>>
>
>I've actually been in Peter's camp on this issue (i.e. Struts and Tomcat
>both do this currently). The counter-argument is messiness in the
>top-level directory, especially for projects that have several (Cactus) to
>lots (Turbine) of build script variants. I'm fine with either placement.
one way of getting around this is to have a src/make that have all the
auxilliary build files besides the main one.
Cheers,
Pete
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