Stefano Bagnara wrote:
IMO we simply should remove everything but build.xml
mmhhh... really? the build process is working quite good at the moment,
isn't it? I'm just curious what you are trying to achieve. Are you
talking about the binary distribution only?
I thought we could add to build.xml an "initialize" target to be
manually called at start to download everything is needed, but I think
we should better remove all of this stuff: we expect people to already
have the Jdk installed, we can expect they also have ant. The same would
be for maven.
I am with you regarding jdk, ant, maven.
But JUnit is a not a build tool like ant + maven, it is a bunch of java
classes our code directly dependents on (is linked to) through
import-statements. this is true for all other libraries in lib and
tools/lib. (do you want them be removed, too?) JDK classes are also
linked by import statements, but the junit.jar is a little bit more
lightweight ;-)
We should not impose additional hurdles for users by requiring them to
download stuff before the tests can be run.
Remember, the same applied to activation.jar and mail.jar. They had to
be downloaded, extracted and placed by hand. They are now present in the
repository and this is a great relief, I think.
Bernd
Stefano
Bernd Fondermann (JIRA) wrote:
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Bernd Fondermann commented on JAMES-506:
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minor note: tools/lib/junit.jar is not yet in svn. the idea was to
download it from a public repository but I did not work out how to
achieve this using ant.
Remove ant from the repository
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Key: JAMES-506
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-506
Project: James
Type: Improvement
Components: Build System
Reporter: Stefano Bagnara
Assignee: Stefano Bagnara
Fix For: 2.4.0
We can remove the tools/bin, tools/etc and the tools/lib/ant.jar,
tools/lib/junit.jar, tools/lib/optional.jar from our repository.
Ant is a build tool, we can expect developers already have it
installed, or being able to install it separately.
Eventually we could add ant, build.bad, build.sh, and the needed
libraries only to the source distribution.
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