I'm still struggling with some ant complaint about classic vs. modern compiler. It's frustrating when build issues stand in the way of real work.
David
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Building Struts
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:05:45 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, David Graham wrote:
> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:32:31 -0700
> From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Building Struts
>
> I'm starting to work on source patches so I'm setting up my build
> environment for testing purposes. I've found this exercise both mundane and
> time consuming. Would it be worthwhile to post a zipped up build
> environment with a build.properties that's ready to go? Getting all the
> appropriate jars and setting the paths is the main problem.
>
> This would get new developers up and running immediately and maybe promote
> more involvement. If I'm the only one that feels this way, then it's not
> worthwhile (and maybe I'm going about it wrong).
>
There is a reason that build.properties is *not* included in the download
-- there is no single way to organize your environment, so there is no one
common build.properties script that could ever suffice. Just as one
trivial example, I can't even use the same build.properties file on my
Linux development system and my Win2K based laptop, because the syntax of
absolute paths is different.
We've already got a roadmap item for evaluating a switch to Maven for 1.2,
which (among other things) deals with this issue (although that comes with
its own complexities). I don't want to disrupt things pre 1.1-final, and
I can guarantee you that severe messing with build.xml would be
disruptive :-).
Dealing with the build environment sounds like a very good *first* step as
soon as we branch the 1.1 codebase and start using the HEAD branch for
1.2.
> David
>
Craig
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