On 02/10/2006, at 7:25 AM, Michael Geary wrote:
>
> 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

@Mike: Thanks for the extra details on what exactly Ant does -  
interesting.

@Jörn: I got Eclipse and Ant etc. working so thank you very much one  
last time ;)

Joel.
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