On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 19:18 +0200, Roland Weber wrote: > Hi Oleg, > > > If you are referring to commit r514774 I thought the technical reasons > > were fairly clear: (1) we are not shipping contrib code with the > > official distribution, so what is the point to reference it in the build > > file? It just makes it messier > > It hasn't hurt anyone so far, has it? > > > (2) for the love of Lord what's wrong > > with having a local copy of the build script that exactly what you want > > the way you want? > > Yepp, I should have thought about that last year when I set out to > rework the build process so that I would not have to maintain a > second one locally. Beginner's mistake. Now I can't use the build process > as it was, because the default build.xml filename is occupied. If I put > anything into the directory tree, it will inevitably end up in svn through > an accidental commit.
Hi Roland, Add whatever local files you do not want to end up committed through an accidental commit to svn:ignore > Never mind, I should be able to hack something up > within two or three hours. It's just that I wouldn't have spent time on > the official build process last year if I had known that I wouldn't be > able to use it for my purposes. > My main issue with this change was that it feels pretty disrespectful if > almost half of your everyday build targets are removed without an advance > warning and discussion. (Not that I would have been able to put that in > words at the time. Then, it just hurt.) Besides, until you mentioned it > before the last release, I was assuming that we did include the full > Java directories, including contrib code, in the source distribution. I > never cared to check for the presence of individual subdirectories before. > My main issue with the build.xml is that it evolved into something that only one person could maintain and efficiently work with. I attempted to address the situation by eliminating what I saw as unnecessary complexity. I just could not think of this as something you might find offending. Anyways, I apologize for whatever action on my part that came across as disrespectful. It was not my intent. Oleg > > Please lighten up, Roland. There is no evil Russian conspiracy here > > I'll be pondering that for some time. You'll know that I got over it > when I fix the JavaDoc warnings in core. > > cheers, > Roland > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
