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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Allan Jacobs <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/makinggwtbetter.html#compiling
> describes how to download and compile GWT source.  Download, it says,
> starts with the Subversion command line
>
> svn checkout http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ trunk
>
> This is not quite accurate.  Outsiders can only get a copy using
>
> svn checkout http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
> google-web-toolkit-read-only
>
> This is understandable:  there needs to be a mechanism to control code
> commits.
>
> But, there is a side effect.  The source code cannot be compiled using
> the build.xml in the read-only copy.  There are a small set of tools
> that are required.  Most of these can be assembled using other
> download sites.  One jar file, gwt-customchecks.jar is not publicly
> available.
>
> Is this a mistake by the engineering team?  Or, should I start hacking
> the build.xml?
>
> >
>

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