Siegfried Goeschl wrote: > Hi Danny, > > at the end of the day it is more difficult to write an ANT task that > cleverly generates an IDE project file than one or two > committers just > checking in their project file in "contrib" directory as my > fellow troll > suggested ... ;-) .... "perfect is the enemy of good". But as I said > before this is my strictly personal opinion since I just troll around > the mailing list. > > Cheers, > > Siegfried Goeschl
If we distribute something, we are expected to maintain a working version. In truth, it doesn't matter where in the distribution we put it, accompanied by whatever warnings, if it doesn't work we will get bugs raised against it. We soon will get into an unmanageable factorial problem of maintaining configurations for mutliple IDEs, multiple IDE versions and multiple James versions. You, or others, might like to place sample Eclipse configuration files here, http://wiki.apache.org/james/EclipseNotes, being careful to note the target IDE and James versions, or add notes for other Development Tools here http://wiki.apache.org/james/DevelopmentToolNotes. Not perfect, but good enough? -- Steve > Danny Angus wrote: > > >On 21/09/05, Siegfried Goeschl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>So it's not up to me to decide who is a troll or not but > having a quick > >>way to get JAMES running in an IDE doesn't seem to a bad idea .... > >> > >> > > > >No it doesn't, in fact it seems like a good idea to me. > >Having IDE configuration files checked in to svn doesn't seem like > >such a great idea though, and I thought that the general rule for ASF > >projects is not to do this. First of all we'd have to maintain them, > >and if we know that we aren't going to maintain them they should be > >somewhere else, a wiki perhaps or the mailinglist archive. > > > >I personally think that checking tool configs into svn is the least > >palatable of a number of possible alternatives, and would much rather > >have either scripts which can create the configurations (like > >maven-eclipse) or a much more straightforward project layout which > >would allow IDE's to more easily "auto-discover" James, or simply > >better documentation. > > > >As a final thought on the subject I'd say that as no-one has ever > >submitted such a file and James is going strong the point is pretty > >academic. > > > > > >d. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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]
