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From: "Ceki G�lc�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: Proposed dirlayout document
[znip]
>I have asked this before but is there a need for an intermediary directory?
For example, to take an example I am familiar with, Tomcat 4.x, a damn good
project I might add, has a build/ directory and a dist/ directory where
dist/ is a copy of build/. I do not know why Tomcat is doing this but it is.
Other projects are doing similar things. I am obviously missing something...
The intermediate directory (out/ in my proposition) is mostly used to
replace tokens and will contain files that are not needed for the
distribution. For example :
- in the Cactus project, I copy all the java source to the out/ directory
and replace the @version@ token by the current version. This is before doing
the compilation and generating the javadoc
- it contains the classes files which are not part of the distribution
- it contains copies of the manifest file in which tokens have been replaced
(@version@ for example)
- for Cactus, this is where I run the servlet engines and run the unit and
functional tests,
- ...
[snip]
Cheers,
Vincent
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