On 10/19/2011 8:40 PM, Brian Conrad wrote:
> Seems they must have rushed it out again or didn't test enough on
> varying computers.  A bunch of us have found that projects depending
> on our own libraries are broken.  Used to be that you just pointed to
> your library in the app wizard and it was automatic.  

Really? I've never gotten library references to work correctly, at least
in Eclipse. I thought it was always broken. I'm convinced that Eclipse
was created to torture programmers, and that most everyone who claims to
like it is suffering from a variant of Stockholm Syndrome [1]...

Most recently, I finally got sick of Eclipse failing to produce
repeatable builds, and got an Ant build script set up for doing release
builds. And now I can't successfully build in Eclipse at all, despite
the addition of a build.xml being the only change. Can't find a setting
to get it to ignore build.xml. Piece of worthless garbage. If anyone
happens to know of a way to get Eclipse to ignore build.xml, it would be
nice to know it.

The Ant migration was also an adventure, since the Android build scripts
don't support the concept of external libraries actually living in
external folders -- or if they do, I couldn't figure out how to make it
work. All the help I could find in forums and on StackOverflow just said
"copy the jar files...", which was only half the problem (I have library
CODE as well that isn't built into jar files, so I want multiple source
folders), and is frankly a pathetic solution (yes I have lots of hard
drive space, but why waste space AND slow the build down when the script
can just reference them where they live?). So I had to copy big parts of
the Ant build system and customize them in ways I shouldn't have had to.

I hate Java AND Ant, and will never completely forgive Google for making
Android Java based. Yes, I do NDK development.

I hear that IntelliJ is an improvement over Eclipse...I'll have to give
it a try when I get a chance. I only use Eclipse for Java anyway, since
the C++ module I tried was so completely broken, and I don't even know
if it has a Lua module, which is what 90% of my code is written in...

Tim

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome



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