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----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Developers List" <dev@struts.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Building Struts
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:25:02 -0600, Joe Germuska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am not really familiar with svn:externals, but it sounds great. I'm not
100% sure that (2) is true, at least, if we're going to use maven dist to
build distros. But even if we have to do a little, it will be much more
straightforward.
Yes, you're right. We will need to tell Maven to include the build directory. But that should be pretty straightforward.
If everyone's OK with this, I'll have a go at it tomorrow, if nobody beats me to it. (I'll be out all day today, starting about 5 minutes from now ;).
-- Martin Cooper
(for those who are interested: Chapter 7. Advanced Topics: Externals Definitions http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s03.html )
I'm +1 on this approach. From the tail end of the page from the SVN book,
it looks like we'll have to be conscious of some issues if we do any future
repository re-orgs, but hopefully we won't have to.
Joe
At 7:43 AM -0800 2/19/05, Martin Cooper wrote: By using svn:externals, we gain several things:
1) We get a "free" copy of 'build' along with each subproject, meaning that it doesn't have to be checked out separately to build one subproject. Checking out 'core', for example, would be enough to build core.
2) The "free" copy means that we don't have to do anything special when building the source distros, since the 'build' directory will already be part of the checked out subproject when the distro is being created.
3) We don't have to mess with Maven properties to deal with two different build scenarios (i.e. checked out vs. source distro).
4) It's really simple! :-)
WDYT?
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