Kyle Adams wrote:
>
> I'm currently revamping our company's build process to utilize Ant
> scripts generated from XML project definitions via XSLT.� I've
> heard Gump mentioned several times on the ant-user list, and I've
> seen the HTML pages produced by Gump on the Jakarta build.� I'm
> very impressed, and I think Gump would solve some problems
> (inter-project dependencies for one) I'm currently struggling
> with.� When I started looking around the Alexandria site for
> downloadables, I couldn't find any.� It seems that the only way of
> obtaining Alexandria (and more specifically Gump) is via CVS.� This
> presents a problem as the ports used by CVS are closed on our
> corporate firewall.
>
> Question #1: Is there another way I might be able to obtain Alexandria
> or even just Gump?
I've placed a snapshot of Gump source (just gump) at
http://www.apache.org/~rubys/gump.zip
> Question #2: What is the relationship between Gump and Alexandria?
> As far as I've been able to gather, Gump is a subproject of Alexandria.
> Beyond that, can one use Gump without getting the rest of Alexandria?
Alexandria started out focused on documentation, but will ultimately
encompass all that Gump currently does. Gump stated out focused on
building projects.
They can definately be run separately.
> Question #3: What exactly does Gump do/what are Gump's features?
Gump takes a number of project definitions, optionally organized into
profiles and aggregated into a workspace, and builds a shell script or
batch file that will do the build in the proper order - taking care of
class paths and property values - and publish the result.
The zip that I mentioned above is a primarly XSLT implementation of the
above. AntGump is an experimental variation that does much of the same
using Ant. Maven is a new attempt to recast this into Java.
- Sam Ruby
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