On 13/12/06, Steve Vinoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Marnie, today you added the client/example directory, but I'm a
little puzzled by it, because I don't know what it's intended for.
One issue is that it's not part of the main build, so it will not
appear as part of any distribution. Another issue is that I don't
think it should be part of the main build -- only the sources and the
tests should be.
I'd therefore like to suggest that any samples/examples/demos be put
under the distribution directory, so they can be included in qpid
distributions, as I assume we want them to be, without requiring them
to be part of the main build. I'd be happy to move them if you like.
I don't think the examples should be part of the distribution build.
This just seems unintuitive. I would have suggested they should either
be in src/examples part of the main build, but then delivered to
everyone, or as they are in a separate sub-module of client. That can
be included in a distribution but can also be distributed separately.
The distribution directory is already so full of jars that we never
had or needed pre-maven. I'd like to see us moving towards a set of
distributions that contain the minimal files required to run a broker,
a client and for development that contains everything.
The only problem I can see currently is that if we include the
examples in the distribution then as they are not part of the main
build the distribution build will fail because it copies whatever
files are in your local repository. I don't know maven that well but
is there ANY way we can change this? Only dependencies should be
pulled from the local repository. The qpid code should be compiled
"locally" and included in the distribution.
I can't believe that maven forces you to only work on one "revision"
of the code base at a time. I have a number of branches in development
and having to do a main clean and install before I can build a
distribution seems so unintuitive.
This issue doesn't seem to bother some on the list but I am finding it
increasingly annoying. Does anyone else share this opinion?
--
Martin Ritchie
