At 08:36 08.05.2001 +1000, you wrote:
>At 06:09 7/5/01 +0200, Ceki G�lc� wrote:
>>>Unfortunately half projects use "build" for (1) and half use it for (2). My
>>>recomendation would be to invent a new name for (1) that conflicts with no
>>>existing project - perhaps "intermediate". For (2) I recomend "tools" as
>>>that makes it very clear what is contained within that directory.
>>
>>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...
>
>It is neccessary as a lot of things may be generated but not distributed in
>final distribution. For instance in Avalon/Cornerstone we
>* we create .class files (that are not distributed)
>* pack the classes int jar files (that are not distributed)
>* pack these jar files into another deployment jar (is distributed)
OK but have you considered <delete>? Cheers, Ceki
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