I am trying to get to grips with Gump and am confusing myself with respect to the various build mechanisms. I've read pretty much every message in the archive covering the last eight weeks and searched for likely terms in the other messages to get an idea of the history.
As I understand it, there are essentially 3 subprojects:
* shell Gump (the original, using a mixture of jenny.jar, build.sh, update.sh, nag.pl, gen.sh and gump.sh (or .bat), plus xslt transformations)
* Ant Gump (experimental - shell still needed for some targets/tasks)
* Python Gump (also experimental - I haven't looked too closely at this one)
Now, gen.sh does all its Java stuff directly, while gump.sh uses Ant for some of the Java targets.
I was planning to make some minor improvements to gump.sh and was also considering replacing some of the scripting with Ant targets - is the latter the right thing to do? gen.sh shouldn't use Ant targets, but may directly call into Jenny.jar, right?
Actually, it would be nice to have STATUS, STATUS-ANT and STATUS-PYTHON files for us newbies, so we don't ask (so many) stupid questions on the alias ;)
Finally, is the long-term plan that shell Gump gets replaced with Ant and/or Python or that all three are offered and users choose the one best suited to their needs?
-- Michael
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