[Happy Independence Day, fellow Americans!] --- "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The basic build principles that I will implement > include: > > * No code generation or modification for normal > builds. > * All generated code and data maintained in CVS. >
I don't think you have to bother with this. This is akin to storing binaries in CVS--kind of messy. > This is primarily to ease the introduction to the > code for newcomers, > but also to rationalise the basic working > environment for development. But Peter--isn't the developer IQ & work ethic required to constructively help on FOTreeBuilding, Area Tree/Layout, Rendering, etc. far greater than whatever would be needed to understand automatic code generation? "I am too stupid & lazy to look into build/src for autogenerated code" but "Hey, FOP Team, let me help you out on that Area Tree redesign you have there" is a contradiction. As a relative newcomer, I can tell you--There is a *ton* of FOP I still don't understand--Area Tree creations, fonts, Renderer's etc. (and *feel free* to make that more understandable!) But this has 0.00% to do with autogenerated code. Rather, I just haven't gotten to those areas of code yet, also I wouldn't be surprised if "cerebral limitations" also kick in more than I would like along the way. So with every other potential developer. > Once the code generation step is separated, normal > builds can monitor > the state of the generated code by a) checking > creation dates of > generated files and their sources and b) performing > cvs diffs against > the repository. For a normal build, I would simply > check timestamps, > while for a distribution build I would enforce a > repository check. > > In the normal case, inconsistencies in the generated > code would halt the > build. A property could be defined to override this > from the command > line or from build-local.properties. > All this to avoid a minute or two of extra build time?--it doesn't seem worth the headache. Glen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
