Hi Gavin,
On Jul 9, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Gavin Eadie wrote:
At 3:55 PM -0700 7/9/07, Chuck Hill wrote:
The Ant build that ships with WOLips is, IMO, a terrible mess.
Some time ago, I headed down a path I wondered if I'd regret, which
was redoing the WO ant tasks. It would mean maintaining my own
copy, etc, etc, but it was a better fit to the way I like things.
You are referring to the tasks in woproject.jar, not the build.xml
files? I think the Ant tasks are great, it is the build.xml that I
have some grumbles with.
It has a few features I like:
... no dependence on the wonder ant tasks, or any non-core
tasks .. so I could send it to someone who didn't have wonder.jar
and it would still work. That makes it complicated.
wonder.jar? Ant tasks in Wonder? Where?
... same build.xml for frameworks and applications .. so I only
have to maintain one file. That makes it complicated
... senses WO 5.3 or WO 5.4 and adjusts the build process to
match .. not quite finished yet, and makes it complicated.
The result is complicated (did I already say that) mostly because
conditional actions in Ant tend to be tricky
Amen to that!
and results in a lot of repetition, and I'm actually not completely
convinced it was worth the effort. It's a work in progress (mainly
the WO 5.4 parts), and I've borrowed heavily from others' work, but
I would be happy to show it to anyone thinking along the same
lines, if it might be helpful (I'm not promoting this work, but am
happy to share) .. Gav
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