on 12/15/2000 11:31 AM, "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please give us a chance to discuss before comitting?
>
> I've spent the last two days building a meta-build system. It consists of
> an abstract definition of the system that you want to build, in XML. A
> concrete user profile, also in XML, binding names to locations to where you
> want them to reside on disk. And, finally, an XSLT transform which will
> convert these two into a script designed for your native platform (I've
> been focusing on with Windows and Linux). One could easily image extending
> this with a graphical front end.
>
> One thing that would make life much easier would be if we could agree on
> some simple things, like the names of targets - it is "package" or "dist"?
> Where to find outputs. How to specify inputs (environment var / properties
> file / class path).
>
> What we have now is Jon doing all of "his" projects one way and Craig doing
> all of "his" projects another.
>
> I know that Jon keeps telling me that I'm focusing on the wrong things, but
> I would like to get to the point where the various projects are
> standardized building blocks, with each project describing in a machine
> readable fashion their dependencies.
>
> - Sam Ruby
I didn't remember you posting about building such a system, but it is MOST
appreciated and wanted.
I will wait to use whatever you have.
-jon
