Personally I dislike the release overhead, but since I only ever need to wear the cost once for any particular type of build I don't see it as that onerous over all. I configure my projects using maven and drop the necessary tools as plugins into the relevant phase of the build life-cycle. >From there on that project always builds and/or releases my component just as specified.
And once I've configured it for one type of project (eg Android) I either 1) abstract out the common strcuture from the build and publish it for other projects to use 2) create a build template that is published for other projects to use. 3) copy the build to new projects So adding a tool like ProGuard or ZipAlign or JarSigner into the build process is simple, clear and maintainable. But hey, I place higher value than some on those 3 : simple, clear and maintainable. On Sep 23, 2:59 pm, JP <joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just read the latest Android Developer blog > post.http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/proguard-android-and-l... > Quite the beast. And Proguard cannot even be used with confidence > ("it’s still possible that in edge cases you’ll end up seeing > something like a ClassNotFoundException"). > > Is it just me getting irritated where this seems to be going? > In my more active days developing, pretty graphic slang was applies to > efforts like this: "Turd layering". Meaning: More dependencies, more > procedure, more sources of error, and it doesn't even work "right". In > of itself, adding innocent looking steps to a release procedure (for > some relatively obscure benefit) might be marginally worthwhile, but > in the bigger picture, releasing an app increasingly becomes a burden. > Dare you miss a step. Or try to teach somebody else how to go through > a release and verify it. Or you want to go and rebuild a development > environment. Or lose the ominous reference file (mapping.txt)... > > Anybody care to disagree and convince me this all nice and dandy and > we don't have to literally run for the hills? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
