> I have seen few if any > Ant-based projects which didn't require at least a bit of tweaking to > a local build.properties file; on the other hand, most Maven projects > "just work" if you have Maven installed.
I was presently surprised yesterday to checkout the head of XDoclet and just run the ant build (all from within Eclipse) and it built the whole XDoclet distribution including all the various sub modules. I imagine they used a combination of checking in dependencies or downloading them but it was a very pleasant ant build experience. With either ant or maven a clean checkout should build without any property files being tweaked. The property files should exist for developers that want to override some default like using a different version of some jar file or sending the build output somewhere else. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
