I'm trying to build Craig's new stuff, but it is a royal pain in the ass to
build because it depends on a bunch of other tools that live in
Jakarta-Commons. Now, these other tools are a royal pain in the ass to build
because they depend on each other and each and every one has a different way
of building itself.
For example, commons-collections has a dist-jar target and commons-beanutils
doesn't have either a jar target or a dist-jar target. Instead it has a dist
target. On top of it, each one seems to have its own way of figuring out how
to generate the location of the various dependency .jar files.
I can understand jakarta-commons-sandbox having each own mess, but I would
hope that the jakarta-commons would at least be able to agree on a single
format for build files.
This is really frustrating.
-jon
