> Sam was correct that I wanted the latest SVN version. I also > wanted to see if I was missing out on any other information > that the build process provided. > > @Michael: I got the idea that it would be a good thing to > have access to this from what John Resig mentioned when 1.0 > was released. He sounded excited about the whole Ant building > process so I wanted to look into it. I also read this phrase > a lot on this list: "you need the latest SVN version of > jQuery to do this" so I wanted to know how to get it. Plus I > read about other people "grabbing the latest version from > SVN", so I was vexed that I didn't find it quite so simple.
Joel, even if you want to use the svn version, you don't need to do any of this ant build stuff at all. All it does is strip comments and concatenate files. The .js files straight out of svn are perfectly usable just as they are. For development purposes, that is all you need. The only advantage of the "built" version is that it's smaller and has some of the plugin .js files added to the end of jquery.js. For testing, you can just use multiple <script> tags to include the .js files you need. Then you can use the files straight out of svn with no worries. Or you can concatenate them manually. Also, keep in mind that when you use the svn version, there is more risk of bugs than with the released version. Nobody expects web designers to have to set up ant just to use jQuery. -Mike _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
