At 10:02 07.05.2001 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 7 May 2001, Ceki [iso-8859-1] G�lc� wrote:
>
>>
>> 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 two targets are *not* identical.
>Tomcat developers want to do the minimum amount of work necessary to
>create a runnable version of Tomcat -- thus, they execute the default
>build.xml target ("deploy-main") that creates an executable Tomcat 4.0 in
>the "build" directory. To speed things up, this dispenses with Javadoc
>creation, JARing things up, and stuff like that.
>
>When you're ready to cut a release (or a nightly build), the "dist" target
>is used, which creates a complete binary distribution. Obviously, large
>parts of this can be copied from the "build" output (it would not make
>sense to recompile everything, and so on) -- but there are also additional
>steps. But this target is not used for daily development work.
>
>Bottom line -- having an intermediate build directory substantially
>improves the turnaround time for me as a Tomcat developer.
Hi Craig,
Thanks for taking the time to clarify the Tomcat build process. If I understand you
correctly, the reason behind having two target directories is to speed up the creation
of a "work" version of Tomcat. Would it not be possible to have a "build" target that
just creates compiled classes, a "jar" target to create jar files, a "javadoc" target
to create javadocs and a "dist" target to create a complete distro? (The "dist" target
would depend on "jar" and "javadoc" targets. The "jar" target would depend on "build".)
Thus, it would be possible to have a working version by invoking the build target?
Regards, Ceki
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