On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:11, Bobby Nations wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm pumped to find out that there is an on-going port of the sword
> library to Java. Having hung out along the periphery since taking a
> meager shot at helping with the EntriesBlock class (in which I have
> everything done but the getRawData function ... I find that I can't get
> past ingrained tendencies not to do things in certain ways, sorry).
>
> Anyway, I've been romping around the jsword project, and am ready to
> begin contributing to it. Attached is an ant build file for the stuff
> in /jsword/src that will compile the code, create the javadocs, and jar
> the class files. If you wanted to standardize to ant (many java
> projects are doing so as we speak), then this would take the place of
> the many Makefiles scattered about.
>
> I'm trying to get the stuff in apps to work, but it keeps crashing every
> time I attempt to compile with ant. Eventually, eventually.
>
> Next task, start writing JUnit classes to test the classes themselves.
> Yippee. BTW, if you've never used JUnit (or one of it's clones), you've
> been missing a real treat.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bobby
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>
Awesome Bobby! I don't know what the check-in process is, but I hope
this gets in and the Makefiles removed soon!
Obviously, you have my vote for Ant and JUnit. I have used them both
extensively and wouldn't Java recommend a project go without them.
/mike
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