Hi Gavin, On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Gav... <ga...@16degrees.com.au> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:der...@apache.org] >> Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 6:13 AM >> To: zeta-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: [zeta-dev] Migration from Make to Ant >> >> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Jerome Renard wrote: >> >> > I started to create an Ant based version of the Makefile available in >> > website/ >> > >> > The problem with the Makefile is that it does not work at all on Mac >> > Os X and is kind of hard to read. >> >> I am afraid that nobody else uses Ant here, so I would oppose that. > > Have you asked every user of Zetacomponents whether or not they use > Ant? Where are the emails and replies for that? > > This is an open source project in an open source world housed at an > open source organisation. You cannot oppose volunteers scratching > their own itch. If jerome wants to provide an Ant alternative I > do not see the harm. > > If Jerome then wants to replace Make with Ant then that is another matter > but still something that 'you' personally cannot oppose, that is a decision > for the Podling PMC or the Incubator PMC, no one person has power here > and the sooner folks realise this the sooner you might start attracting > those > new committers your board report said you needed.
Well I think I should have explained the context which lead me to translate the Makefile to its Ant equivalent. At the end of last week I was discussing with Tobias as couple of things about the documentation and patches I had for it. I then realized the Makefile simply did not work on my laptop and after spending quite some time to fix stuff here and there with no acceptable results I thought it would be easier and faster to use something more cross-platform than this Makefile. The choice of Ant came naturally because: 1. it is cross-platform (well if you do not use system specific executables of course :)) 2. it is an ASF project So using a ASF cross-platform tool looked like the right choice to me. -- Jérôme Renard http://39web.fr | http://jrenard.info | http://twitter.com/jeromerenard
