on 3/31/02 11:52 AM, "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On some platforms.  There is no requirement to use configure.

There is if you want to write easily portable C code. You need to use
automake/autoconf/aclocal...

FYI, I wrote a large majority of JServ's build system...

> And there is
> nothing that generates the defaults.properties.

No need. It is a static file of defaults. :-)
 
> If there was, it could just as well generate the build.properties for the
> user.  I think having the ability to be externally generated with something
> like configure would be great - however, it doesn't mean build.xml can't
> have it's own defaults for us primitives that like stuff in one place...

If you have it in build.xml and default.properties, then it has to be
maintained in two places.

-jon


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