Hi Craig,
>Ceki, could you expand on why you're objecting to the multistage build
>process? I'm with Peter on this one ... multi-stage builds save time for
>the developers (because they do the minimum amount of work required), and
>also make the "dist" target work better:
>
>- They reuse what's already been done, with transformations as needed
> (so it runs faster, versus rebuilding everything again)
Indeed.
>- They add any *extra* steps needed (create Javadocs, copy sources, etc.)
> that are appropriate for the binary distribution.
There is nothing wrong with a multistage build process. It is pretty obvious that one
needs to split the build process into multiple stages. Having a multistaged build is
not the same as requiring a intermediary build directory.
IMHO, the intermediate build directory can and should be avoided. Instead of
selectively copying from the intermediate build/ directory to dist/, one can generate
directly to dist/ and use tar/zip selectively to create the distribution. The latter
solution keeps just one copy of files which saves space. More importantly the latter
is less error-prone as there is only one place to edit files. Does that make sense?
Ceki
>- Most fundamentally, they let the "shape" of the intermediate build
> directory tree be different from that of the binary distribution
> if that's appropriate to your project.
Couldn't selective tar or zip operation work? Couldn't the <copy> operation be avoided?
>What is it that you believe we are missing?
I dunno. The only difference I see is the requirement for an intermediate directory.
Regards, Ceki
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