My makefile uses a set of make dependencies that are copyright the company
I work for. I'd have to ask first before I could post it.
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Conor MacNeill wrote:
> Nick,
>
> Can we see the makefile? Did you get the same file to work on many
> platforms? What make did you use (nmake, gmake, ...)?
>
> Conor
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Bauman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, 13 November 2000 8:05
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Ant rant
> >
> >
> > Question: WHAT THE HECK IS ANT?
> >
> > Now I know what ant is, I'm just hyperbolizing. But...
> >
> > It's just that I got the entire Tomcat 3.1 tree to compile
> > with a single
> > Makefile in around 10 minutes. I can't figure out what Ant is
> > helping this
> > project with. Maybe I'm just stupid or something but this Ant thing
> > doesn't really impress me very much. Make is very stable, very cross
> > platform; I just don't see what's so cool about ant.
> >
> > Why is ant better than Make?
> >
> > And don't say "ant is cross platform, make is not" because
> > that just isn't
> > true. Was someone just bored with the wheel and wanted to reinvent it?
> >
> > I just want to understand.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Nick
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Pier P. Fumagalli wrote:
> >
> > > Question: WHAT THE HACK IS TOMCAT 3.3 ???
> > >
> > > I believe that this developer community once agreed that Tomcat 4.0
> > > _will_be_ the next major release of the Apache Software
> > Foundation servlet
> > > engine, but, since a couple of weeks, I see a proliferation
> > of emails
> > > talking about Tomcat 3.3.
> > >
> > > Here is where I'm getting confused... When did we vote
> > about having a dual
> > > codebase for two different servlet engines at the same
> > time??? Because I've
> > > never seen such a discussion taking place...
> > >
> > > Also, it seems ridiculous (at least to me) to start talking
> > about what will
> > > be the next release of the 3.x tree (3.3) when 3.2 is not
> > yet out of the
> > > door, and as far as I've read (but I might have missed some
> > emails) Beta-6
> > > is not even compiling...
> > >
> > > Sorry, but as a long time ASF member, and one of the first
> > kids involved in
> > > the glorious JServ, I feel that things here are getting a
> > little bit screwed
> > > up. Are we going to screw our release cycles? Are we going
> > out to the public
> > > with TWO servlet engines equal in features, but different
> > in codebases? Are
> > > we all going NUTS?
> > >
> > > Sorry again, but this time I have to vote -1 on a "new" Tomcat 3.3,
> > > expecially before 3.2 final is out of the door. The NEXT
> > major release is
> > > going to be Tomcat 4.0, based on Catalina, as we all agreed
> > on months ago.
> > >
> > > But, I'm not _only_ a pain in the ass... I see there are
> > some developers who
> > > prefer to work on the 3.x tree, rather than helping out on
> > the 4.0, so,
> > > instead of cutting their wings and forcing them to fork the
> > project, I
> > > propose to them what was proposed to Craig in february.
> > >
> > > The "Rules for Evolution and Revolutions" still stands
> > still, as one of the
> > > major constitution documents for this community (James, WTF, post it
> > > somewhere!!! :) and IMNSHO needs to be used...
> > >
> > > I suggest to whoever is interested in further developement
> > of the 3.3 tree
> > > to create a new proposal, as Craig did with Catalina, and
> > stick it on the
> > > "proposals" directory in the CVS. And start working from
> > it. I'm more than
> > > open to see, after Tomcat 4.0 sees light, to reconsider the
> > effort, and
> > > maybe switching codebase again for what will be Tomcat 5.0.
> > >
> > > So, I'm proposing this plan, and please vote on 2 and 4 (1
> > and 3 were
> > > already voted upon with a bunch of +1s)...
> > >
> > > 1) Release Tomcat 3.2 final (soon, please!)
> > > 2) Create a new proposal tree alongside with Catalina (new
> > name to avoid
> > > confusion, please)
> > > 3) Release Tomcat 4.0 (with Catalina, as we all decided)
> > > 4) Decide wether Tomcat 5.0 will be Catalina based or "whatever" new
> > > proposal comes along.
> > >
> > > My 0.02 $... Take care...
> > >
> > > Pier
> > >
> > >
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> > Nicolaus Bauman
> > Software Engineer
> > Simplexity Systems
> >
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