--- Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert McIntosh wrote:
> > After changing several prop files, I got fortress to build. Thanks guys.
> 
> If you have an insight as to how to make the stuff easier for the next 
> person to try, please share (or patch!). Ant can be a bitch sometimes.
> 
> cheers!
> 
> - Leo
> 

I'll chime in on this one...

The only issue I've had with building fortress (or other avalon projects) is
that the build expects you to have everything set up as in CVS.  Yes you can
over ride the defaults, but that can still be a pain especially since the
dependencies are often on other unreleased code, so you might as well just
checkout the entire module and build it all.  This works well, but that's a lot
to check out.  Granted, Fortress hasn't had an official release yet, but when
it does I would hope that the source distribution doesn't require recreating
the CVS environment just to build.  IMHO the perfect source distribution would
do one of the following:
   (1) include the dependency jars in a /lib directory
   (2) include a list of the dependancies with links
   or even better
   (3) download the dependencies if they don't already exist on the local
machine (kinda like maven).

I guess I'm talking more about building the eventual 1.0 source distribution
than the current CVS module.  Even still, a build system that can download
would be nice (be it maven or ant "import-***" targets).

just my $0.02
jaaron


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