RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-05 Thread Jason Dillon
... - Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Jencks Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Probably not:-) My idea involved a complete rewrite of ant

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-05 Thread Jason Dillon
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Can you explain the Ant MBean thing to me please. --jason On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, David Jencks wrote: On 2002.10.04 09:39:07 -0400 Matt Munz wrote: David, I forget -- were you the one that started

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-05 Thread Matt Munz
: Saturday, October 05, 2002 3:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Okay, sounds interesting. Do you have an concreate ideas on a design for such a beast? --jason On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Matt Munz wrote: Can you explain the Ant MBean thing to me please

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread Jason Dillon
Message- From: Jason Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas If I send you an example .xml file can you send me a basic skeleton stylesheet

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread Jason Dillon
Other then that I think we should use the parallel task in the testsuite to speed up the xdoclet and jar tasks. I'm not sure if it would really speed it up but doing a one-test takes forever because of the xdoclet I made the output (jar) tasks run in parallel. I can not make the xdoclet

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread Matt Munz
: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas The problem with writing build components in Java is that the maintenece process is slow and difficult, and only a select few can currently perform this. Perhaps if the build components were made into a included module this would different... I am

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread Matt Munz
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Dillon Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas The ant committers are all insane. --jason On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, David Jencks wrote: FWIW I think ant could be better

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread marc fleury
: Jason Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas If I send you an example .xml file can you send me a basic skeleton stylesheet with examples on how

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread marc fleury
I am thinking about how to do this. --jason On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Scott M Stark wrote: Less mysteriousness, as in: !-- | Initialize the build system. Must depend on '_buildmagic:init'. | Other targets should depend on 'init' or things will mysteriously fail.

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread marc fleury
to Xandy. marc f -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jason Dillon Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:33 PM To: Scott Sayles Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Sorry for the delay

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread David Jencks
] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas The ant committers are all insane. --jason On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, David Jencks wrote: FWIW I think ant could be better replaced by a bunch of mbeans running in an mbean server. Basically task == mbean and target also == mbean

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread Jason Dillon
Why is it that evry time I make the build system easier/faster/beter that you start bitching at me with non-sensical dribble? Absolutely, Scott is right RE: un-necessary complicated stuff that makes NO sense to a reader and serves an obscure goal. I am convined that anything that I do you

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread Jason Dillon
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Dillon Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas The ant committers are all insane. --jason On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, David Jencks wrote: FWIW I

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread David Jencks
] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas The ant committers are all insane. --jason On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, David Jencks wrote: FWIW I think ant could be better replaced by a bunch of mbeans running in an mbean server. Basically task == mbean

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread Matt Munz
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Dillon Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 7:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Can you explain the Ant MBean thing to me please. --jason On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, David Jencks wrote

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-04 Thread Matt Munz
Of David Jencks Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Probably not:-) My idea involved a complete rewrite of ant as a bunch of mbeans, using as much jmx functionality as possible. This was based on the observation that the ant

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
, 2002 1:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas I think we should develop a new custom task to initialize the properties and classpaths for the thirdparty packages. I wrote a hack to check that directories are available before calling the task

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread marc fleury
. We could run a ANT-like MBean and blah blah blah. marc f -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jason Dillon Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 9:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread David Jencks
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas The problem with writing build components in Java is that the maintenece process is slow and difficult, and only a select few can currently perform this. Perhaps if the build components were made into a included

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
thing. Scott Stark Chief Technology Officer JBoss Group, LLC - Original Message - From: Jason Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
Scott Stark Chief Technology Officer JBoss Group, LLC - Original Message - From: David Jencks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jboss- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Jencks Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas On 2002.09.19 19:32:25 -0400 Scott M Stark

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
Right, we can publish all of the build documentation. --jason On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, David Jencks wrote: I agree. Having them posted might encourage people to make them more accurate and comprehensive. The xdoclet-generated todo list would be good also. This is now generated by the all

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
Sounds like a good idea. I will set this up when I get to fixing the snapshots. --jason On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Dain Sundstrom wrote: I think it would be cool (which means it is not a formal request) to be able to have some tasks that can build the javadocs and push them to our webserver

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
I agree... but the trick is to accomplish this and still keep the build files simple, small. I am thinking about how to do this. --jason On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Scott M Stark wrote: Less mysteriousness, as in: !-- | Initialize the build system. Must depend on '_buildmagic:init'.

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Can you find any more info about using xslt or velocity as a preprocessor to the build files? I think this might be a good idea, but just

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
Sorry for the delay... Probably the biggest annoyance I have with using a sub-module is that the ${project.root} property within the sub-module ends up including the module above it instead of being the actual project root, so I have to define my own local ${project.root.local} property in

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Dillon
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jason Dillon Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 9:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas The problem with writing build components in Java is that the maintenece process is slow and difficult

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-10-03 Thread James Higginbotham
, it will produce a file called autogen-build.xml in src/web/xml HTH, James -Original Message- From: Jason Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas If I send

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-25 Thread Scott Sayles
Sorry to post to this list but I'm currently dealing with this issue in my own project and thought it would be appropriate to comment. Also, I'm not sure where to post any buildmagic related questions or if there is such a place to do so. We've recently switched to buildmagic. I've more

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread Dain Sundstrom
I think it would be cool (which means it is not a formal request) to be able to have some tasks that can build the javadocs and push them to our webserver (of course you would have to authenticate by hand). It would be nice if this were simple, so we can have (trusted) others post results to

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread David Jencks
I agree. Having them posted might encourage people to make them more accurate and comprehensive. The xdoclet-generated todo list would be good also. This is now generated by the all build. Along with the javadocs I'd like to suggest we work a little more on the jmx-api docs I started on that

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread Scott M Stark
Less mysteriousness, as in: !-- | Initialize the build system. Must depend on '_buildmagic:init'. | Other targets should depend on 'init' or things will mysteriously fail. -- target name=init unless=init.disable depends=_buildmagic:init /target I would like standard Ant +

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread Jason Dillon
]] On Behalf Of David Jencks Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas There seems to be an import and an include and I'm not completely sure what the difference is or where the include task is. The import might get into ant

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread Jason Dillon
- Original Message - From: Jason Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:23 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Okay, no worries. What don't you get? Which tests specifically are you thinking of when you say

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread James Higginbotham
are using XSL + Ant. HTH, James -Original Message- From: Jason Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Can you find any more info about using xslt or velocity

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread Scott M Stark
, LLC - Original Message - From: Jason Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas So all of the examples you list which depend on other modules to function

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread Jason Dillon
This is exactly my point. This is the same thing that I am saying. most of the work is setting up the components, not the basic functionality testing. If there are truly module isolated functional tests, put these in the module, but cross module testing belongs in a teststuite module with

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread David Jencks
. HTH, James -Original Message- From: Jason Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Can you find any more info about using xslt or velocity as a preprocessor

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread James Higginbotham
and others that may want to know how we are using XSL + Ant. HTH, James -Original Message- From: Jason Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-20 Thread Scott M Stark
-dev] Build System... any ideas This is exactly my point. This is the same thing that I am saying. most of the work is setting up the components, not the basic functionality testing. If there are truly module isolated functional tests, put these in the module, but cross module testing

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Matt Munz
that there are alternatives to adding another language to the build system. - Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Dillon Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas I

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Scott M Stark
: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas I had looked into this, making a custom task, but dropped it... why... I can't remember. I think that making use of the script task would be a good idea. I have been thinking about using script todo most

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Scott M Stark
Technology Officer JBoss Group, LLC - Original Message - From: Jason Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas David and I talked about this on the way back from

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Dillon
Scott Stark Chief Technology Officer JBoss Group, LLC - Original Message - From: Jason Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas David and I talked about

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Dillon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jboss- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott M Stark Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Anymove that restores that ability to run our build in Ant aware tools

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread David Jencks
Technology Officer JBoss Group, LLC - Original Message - From: Jason Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas David and I talked about this on the way back

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Juha-P Lindfors
Chief Technology Officer JBoss Group, LLC - Original Message - From: Jason Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas David and I talked about

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Dillon
Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas David and I talked about this on the way back from Tahoe. I would like to revisit the entire TestSuite, putting a testsuite in each module, which would perform Unit tests for components and parts of components for that module

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread David Jencks
Group, LLC - Original Message - From: David Jencks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas They'd probably solve the problem of 7 minutes to build to run

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Scott M Stark
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas On 2002.09.19 18:05:46 -0400 Scott M Stark wrote: Add -Dnojars=true during the run of the single test and zero compilation time is the result. Umm, yes, I know about

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Dillon
for granted? --jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jboss- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott M Stark Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas I still don't buy it. Many

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread David Jencks
, September 19, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas On 2002.09.19 18:05:46 -0400 Scott M Stark wrote: Add -Dnojars=true during the run of the single test and zero compilation time is the result. Umm, yes, I know about nojars, I wrote it. It doesn't

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Dillon
Jencks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas On 2002.09.19 18:05:46 -0400 Scott M Stark wrote: Add -Dnojars=true during the run of the single test and zero compilation time

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Jason Dillon
So are you suggesting that there be, more or less, a build file per testsuite directory (e.g. org/jboss/test/jmx gets a build.xml)? Then the testsuite/build.xml calls each of them? No, I am suggesting there be a testsuite in each module. build/build.xml would be configured to recurse into

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread Scott M Stark
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:23 PM Subject: RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas Okay, no worries. What don't you get? Which tests specifically are you thinking of when you say then involve several functional modules? Just one for an example, so I can

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread David Jencks
On 2002.09.19 20:48:17 -0400 Jason Dillon wrote: So are you suggesting that there be, more or less, a build file per testsuite directory (e.g. org/jboss/test/jmx gets a build.xml)? Then the testsuite/build.xml calls each of them? No, I am suggesting there be a testsuite in each module.

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-19 Thread David Jencks
- Original Message - From: David Jencks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas On 2002.09.19 18:05:46 -0400 Scott M Stark wrote: Add -Dnojars=true during the run

Re: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-18 Thread Dain Sundstrom
I think we should develop a new custom task to initialize the properties and classpaths for the thirdparty packages. I wrote a hack to check that directories are available before calling the task that declares the classpath. We could write a task that takes the dir name properties to set

RE: [JBoss-dev] Build System... any ideas

2002-09-18 Thread Jason Dillon
I think we should develop a new custom task to initialize the properties and classpaths for the thirdparty packages. I wrote a hack to check that directories are available before calling the task that declares the classpath. We could write a task that takes the dir name properties to set