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From: "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Proposed dirlayout document
> Peter Donald wrote:
> >
> > >6) 2 options should be left to the project for the external jar needed
> to
> > >build/run the project. Until we reach an agreement on course ... (maybe
> > >CJAN/JJAR - see the discussion on jakarta-commons mailing list - will
> help)
> > >:
> > >a) leave the external jars out of CVS. i.e. use a build.properties file
> > >(used by Ant) that defines the location of needed external jars
> > >b) or check the needed external libs in CVS with the project.
> >
> > or both ;)
>
> An expansion on Peter's comments.
>
> What should be recommended is the ability to (1) control the actual jars
> used via Ant properties, and (2) be able to easily specify these
properties
> using Ant properties files which can be found in the current working
> directory or the user's home directory. (Note: the name of these
> properties files should be standardized too, my only vote is that they
> don't start with a "dot").
>
> What the defaults for such properties should be is subject to much
> controversy. If jars are checked into CVS, then the path to these jars
> would be a reasonable default.
>
+1 for defining this properties file and having the link to the jars
specified in it. My proposal for the name is build.properties as we already
have build.xml ...(please no "dot" as a prefix !).
> - Sam Ruby
Vincent
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