---- you "John Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote ---- > That's your (community :) perogative. Speaking for where I work - we > decided that custom property files and environment variables (properly > documented) work better than, and on more platforms, than maintaining both a > build.bat and a build.sh.
I think we're all on the same page - and I figured these were suggestions, not requirements. I guess I was just discussing it the long way around - sorry. > > It's definitely a convenience for some users > > to be able to use and make small changes to Xalan without having to > > download any other products. > > What other products? Ant. Right now, the Xalan distro includes xerces.jar, ant.jar, and a number of other conveniences, making recompiling it (including docs and distros) completely self-contained. Obviously plain end users simply stick a bunch of our .jars into the classpath and just run us - no big diff there. I'm hoping that this makes it a little easier for the users who want to play with something in our codebase, or want to write their own extension to Xalan, etc., to then be able to recompile their work and Xalan as-is, without ever having to refer to anything else besides our distro unit. Minor convenience, but I think it's worth it to our team to do the extra work of maintaining these files. And actually the degree of convenience depends on the community you're talking about. To most listeners (and I bet all writers) on this alexandria-dev list, this is just about moot. But to random humans who use computers to run Java who happen along to a *.apache.org site, little things like this make it easier for them to get their feet wet and start out in this world. > I doubt that changing your build strategy in such a small manner would have > any great affect on your user base - I see it as a win if the build.xml file > is more familiar and helps me (as a developer) get upto speed on other > projects quicker. So I tend to be a big fan of worthwhile standards, so I hope to eventually update our build.xml file to use the same property names that you all come up with for your 'suggested default' build.xml file for jakarta (I've already added most of the default targets). That way we can all have our cake and eat it too! - Shane, using his other email account until my directory server comes back up... ===== <eof aka="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; quote="Odo: [You'd shoot a man in the back?] Garak: [Well, it's the safest way, isn't it?]"/> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
