> -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Zhang [mailto:frank.zh...@citrix.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:08 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Debian/Ubuntu build system based on ANT > > > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Frank Zhang <frank.zh...@citrix.com> > > wrote: > > > I still have some concerns about using ant. > > > As we are removing those apache incompatible jars from source code, > > there build process would break as those jars are compilation > dependencies. > > > Speaking for Ant(not maven), how other projects handle this? Do we > need > > to put those jar to somewhere and pull it before compiling? Then we > are > > doing what maven did. > > Jnetcap is one of them. BuildRequires is not enough, it won't work for > developers who > only uses ant
Write a "ant get-dependency" which grab those apache incompatible jars from somewhere else(we can host these jar files). > > > > > Whats the specific dependency concerns wrt compilation (that probably > > needs to be a new thread)? We can use BuildRequires for any > dependency > > (or the debian equivalent) > > > > Speaking as a packager, I really dislike Maven's method of handling > > dependencies, and desperately hope we avoid that. > > > > --David
