on 12/15/2000 11:59 AM, "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon Stevens wrote:
>>
>> I didn't remember you posting about building such a system,
>> but it is MOST appreciated and wanted.
>
> Posted innumerable times, but here it is once again:
>
>
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jakarta/buildall.html
no no no no no...keep reading...
>> I will wait to use whatever you have.
>
> I didn't mean to stop your work, please continue. I'm not changing
> anything within these projects, I am simply automating the generations of
> tailored build scripts.
ok, i thought you were doing something new...keep reading...
> Again, what would make my life easier (and I suspect the lives of our
> precious users) would be if we could settle on simple things like whether
> the target names are dist or package? Are the build.xml files to be found
> in the top directory or in a build subdirectory? Are they, in fact, named
> build.xml or named build-<project>.xml? And how does one determine and
> specify the dependencies?
>
> Not to mention the innumerable schemes used to specify outputs.
>
> There are a number of these issues where I have expressed preferences, but
> most of all I would like some consistency amongst the various Jakarta and
> Jakarta related projects.
I proposed this a while ago on the PMC list, but what I would like to do now
is something more like what I created for the jakarta-site2 module.
Essentially a basis buildmaker project for people to work from.
That is what I thought that you just said you were creating.
-jon
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