Any ideas on my performance issues under Win2k? -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog Work: http://www.multitask.com.au
Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/01/2003 06:28:41 AM: > Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > > > > Ant files are XML and transforming to them seems to be more natural. Ant > > isn't the most kind thing in the world for its "Hey this crap broke" > > messages, but it is FAR better than cmd.exe or bash in this respect. > > Costin already started something along these lines: > > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-gump/stylesheet/ant-build.xsl > > > Anyhow, I'm just curious what problems there are with this approach. As > > my level of pain increases I'll probably experiment with this, but I'm > > curious if others have thought of this and what the downsides are... > > That may be a value use case for a large portion of the portion of the > potential "marketplace" for gump. > > Issues: > > * I want to fully bootstrap. In my case, I want to build ant from > source and use that version later in the build. > > * I want to be able to easily reproduce problems outside of the > environment generated by Gump. Many times I've found it handy to be > able to send somebody a shell script or a batch file along with a set of > jars to reproduce a problem that they are *sure* must be Gump's fault. > > * Leaky abstractions. I've always found ant calling ant to be > confusing, particularly when it comes to what properties can be passed > and what can be modified. But that may just be me. > > * Modifying JDK levels and/or bootclasspath. A persistent requirement > (despite never having been implemented, so take it with a grain of salt) > is to do a build with different portions of the build at different JDK > levels. What is a real requirement, however, is the ability to modify > the bootclasspath between job steps. > > All presented merely as food for thought. They reasons may or may not > be applicable to you. But there is no reason why Gump can't support > multiple targets - it already does so with bash and win2k. > > - Sam Ruby > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ForwardSourceID:NT000A1AE6 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
