At 08:30 8/5/01 +0200, Ceki G�lc� wrote:
>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
I am not sure why uyou think it is **less** error-prone - I would say it is
far more error prone. Anything which requires a developer to think about
complex structures - many paths to include/exclude (especially when end
product is an Application like Avalon/Phoenix or Tomcat) is much more error
prone.
Intermediate directories reduce complexity for developer - they no longer
have to worry about managing a single directory to do multiple things.
Instead they have extremely controlled copying from intermediate to dist
directory ;) faah simpler, less errror prone ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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