Sounds
like the root of your problem is not having a tidy repository vs. an Ant
specific problem. My recommendation is to clean it up as you are
doing. Although this will be time consuming and tedious, it should pay
dividends later if you do it with care and end up with a repository that is
organized and clean. Then again, if you don't clean it up with care,
you'll have developers on your back which could end up as a very
unpleasant experience. Just make sure before you commit, everything builds
-- have a developer double check the build and runtime execution on your machine
before committing.
Might
want to consider creating a new project which shares files from the project that
is a mess. Just share the files that are needed for a build from
the original project with the new project. This allows you to keep up to
sync with developers changes without messing with their existing project.
After you verify this new project builds and works properly, have the developers
switch over to this new project. And lock (or trash) the old project so
the mess goes away.
JD
-----Original Message-----
From: L.C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 8:18 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Too many files for the ANT build HELP!!I am currently using VSS as source code tool. There is a lot of legacy code in VSS that we don't really use any more but I don't really know what to keep and what to trash. So, when I do a recursive get from VSS I seem to get MORE THAN enough files for make the build. Then I spend more time deleting files/directories from my ANT project than it takes to make the build. How do I get ANT to consistently only take the files necessary for the build . Oh yeah, I have asked development about which files are needed and they don't know either. They tell me to go back to Visual Cafe for the build.Please let me know what I am doing wrong and how to get ANT fixed once and for all.Thanks![EMAIL PROTECTED]
