At 04:17 15/3/01 +0100, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
>>A lot of projects use dist/, in my personal projects I use out/ while some
>>projects use bin/.
>
>See, these names are like colors, blue, green, or yellow... At face value,
they are all equivalent. That's what I meant by sticking to a name. It goes
without saying that the chosen color has to be reasonable, unlike #A26F58
or SemiHuedVelvetBlue.
True but we tend to have some ... err .. strong willed individuals here who
we will find difficult to move from their pet structure. You can make a
standard all you want but we have to get people to follow it ;)
>Forgive my ignorance but what is so wrong with putting "raw" class files in
>the distrib along jar files? Is it the wasted disk space?
messy classpath, wasted diskspace, incredibly slow access on certain
filesystems (ie FAT) etc. Also much more likely to break the 100 char limit
in tar files etc.
>I am not aware of the assumption that the dist directory is meant the
unzipped
>version of the binary distribution. Not at all.
well theres the rub.
>
>If the files
>
>xdocs/manual.xml
>build/build.xml
>build/build.sh
>build/build.bat
>build/lib/ant.jar
>build/lib/xerces.jar
>src/x.java
>
>are contained in the CVS module for project X, then after compiling,
generating javadocs, jarring, and building a distribution image, one would
get:
>
>docs/manual.html
>docs/api/
>docs/api/x.html
>docs/api/overview.html
>docs/api/index.html
>docs/api/etc...
>build/build.xml
>build/build.sh
>build/build.bat
>build/lib/ant.jar
>build/lib/xerces.jar
>src/x.java
>xdocs/manual.xml
>dist/classes/x.class
>dist/lib/X.jar
>
>dist/images/X.tar.gz
>dist/images/X.zip
Maybe in *your* model ...
>where X.tar.gz and X.zip contain all the above files other than
themselves. The images can be refined to contain only source code,
documentation, or binaries. Does that make sense? Ceki
It's one way of doing it but it requires developer sentience whilst
building distributions - something I try to avoid at all costs ;) Besides
that model only works for certain types of projects. Some projects build
particular types of images etc. Having everything below dist/* in binary
distribution is much easier and is a common practice that I believe
originated in java.apace.org projects and migrated to jakarta/xml groups.
Cheers,
Pete
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