Re: Some comments on the build system

2002-04-09 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron, Here's how the RCS works. $ rlog names RCS file: names,v Working file: names head: 1.2 branch: locks: strict access list: symbolic names: Rel_1: 1.1.1.2 RC1: 1.2.1.3 Rel: 1.1.1 Dev: 1.2.1 Base: 1.1 keyword substitution: kv total revisions: 7;

Re: Some comments on the build system

2002-04-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
This page has the cvs keywords: http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_12.html None of them seem to be useable for the version of a product. You still need to change something to make this update anyway. On 2002.04.05 00:44 Peter B. West wrote: Keiron, I don't know the nuts and bolts of

Re: Some comments on the build system

2002-04-05 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron, As I suspected, $Name$ is the tag used to check out the file. In my maint checkout, I have a sticky CVS/Tag specifying fop-0_20_2-maintain (symbolic names cannot contain dot, because a revision is comĀ­posed of one or more numeric or symbolic fields separated by periods -

Re: Some comments on the build system

2002-04-05 Thread Peter B. West
Arved, Obviously, I share many of your attitudes to properties, but I differ in one respect. I think of properties not as rich, but as impoverished. To me, they are just associations of names with values. The richness lies in their treatment in the process of layout, where all of those

RE: Some comments on the build system

2002-04-04 Thread Arved Sandstrom
12:23 PM To: fop-dev Subject: Some comments on the build system Fops, I would like to see the build system overhauled. The overall objectives of the overhaul would be to simplify the build process and decrease barriers to entry for would-be developers. The tactical objectives would

Re: Some comments on the build system

2002-04-04 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron, I don't know the nuts and bolts of CVS, but I always assumed that tags were somehow related to the RCS symbolic name, accessible via $Name$. $Name$ has some peculiarities due to the fact that there is not a unique name attached to the current version; I think it is set in the output

Some comments on the build system

2002-04-03 Thread Peter B. West
Fops, I would like to see the build system overhauled. The overall objectives of the overhaul would be to simplify the build process and decrease barriers to entry for would-be developers. The tactical objectives would be to eliminate XSL from the build, and to generate the classes

Re: Some comments on the build system

2002-04-03 Thread Keiron Liddle
On 2002.04.03 18:23 Peter B. West wrote: There are a couple of other things which encourage the separation of source and build.source trees. They involve the use of copy filtering in ant. Version information is, I think, supplied by ant via the build.xml file. This vile and disgusting