Build.xml's symlink not working on CygWin [jira offline?]

2005-06-03 Thread Dawid Weiss
Hi there, JIRA seems to be offline, so here: My CygWin installation reports an error when running a repeated 'ant jar' -- symlink fails with: jar: [symlink] ln -s ./build/nutch-0.7-dev.jar D:\nutch\nutch\trunk/nutch.jar [symlink] ln: `D:\\nutch\\nutch\\trunk/nutch.jar': File exists A

Re: Build.xml's symlink not working on CygWin [jira offline?]

2005-06-03 Thread Dawid Weiss
I support this wholeheartedly... I know having Windows on your desktop might be a slap-in-the-face for some, but the reality is many of us work in a hybrid environment. I once posted a message asking for small adjustments to the build.xml file that would make ANT build script usable under

Re: Build.xml's symlink not working on CygWin [jira offline?]

2005-06-03 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Dawid Weiss wrote: I support this wholeheartedly... I know having Windows on your desktop might be a slap-in-the-face for some, but the reality is many of us work in a hybrid environment. I once posted a message asking for small adjustments to the build.xml file that would make ANT build

Re: Build.xml's symlink not working on CygWin [jira offline?]

2005-06-03 Thread Dawid Weiss
To minimize duplication of logic. If there are two implementations of something that must be maintained in parallel, then they're likely to get out of sync. All the more so if testing them requires different operating systems. Yeah... that was it :) Personally, I always use cygwin when