At 02:25 22/1/01 -0500, Ariel Partners LLC wrote: >We at Ariel are testing out both the Ant and RPM tools to help implement an >automated build and release environment. The obvious question ensues: what >about an Ant task to control RPM?
no ones submitted one yet but if you want to then that would be kewl ;) >Challenges: RPM is written in C. I don't believe that it is open source. I don't know if the original was free software but there is definetly free software replacements. >RPM is crying out to be rewritten using Java and XML IMHO ;-) Agreed. Ages ago on ant lists this was talked and recently there has been discussion about CJAN + JNLP which could do that for java. Thou if you/someone else wanted to step up it could easily be generalized to generic packages. >Have any of the other Ant tasks had to call native code libraries? Is it >folly to even >think about it? Should it instead be done by punting and calling out to a >shell task? shell tasks /executables are easier - Java is kewler ;) Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
