David Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/04/2005 04:31:33 AM: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:12:42AM -0500, toby cabot wrote: > > Jeremy, > > > > I agree with the first few bullets. > > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:40:13AM -0800, Jeremy Boynes wrote: > > > * verification that the src bundle actually builds and results in the > > > same binary as we are distibuting > > > > Is a src bundle is useful to anyone at this stage of the game? For > > "real" releases, sure, but for now it might make more sense to release > > binaries only and point people at the source code control system if > > they want to build. The problem with people building from the source > > bundle is that if they try to do anything interesting (like make > > changes to the code) then they're in trouble since they won't have a > > mechanism to stay in sync or submit patches that apply cleanly. I > > think that we've got good enough instructions on the wiki so building > > from svn isn't much more complicated than building from a tarball. > > It'd be nice to have a pure source jar (no build files or anything > else) that people could hookup to their IDE. Something like the > src.jar in JAVA_HOME. > > -David
That would be nice so that any IDE/tool that operates on a source archive can be used (not just some IDEs (e.g. eclipse) that have smarts to find source files in subdirectories of an archive). John This e-mail message and any attachments may contain confidential, proprietary or non-public information. This information is intended solely for the designated recipient(s). If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any review, dissemination, use or reliance upon this information by unintended recipients is prohibited. Any opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author personally.
