On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Bernd Fondermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i dislike the way that the dist target works in the crypto (copied > > from mailet-api build). IMO a source distribution should be created by > > an svn export and then hand rolled. > > +1, as long as it works automatically :-) > clean checkout, ok. but what do you mean by hand-rolled?
i type: % svn export http://apache/foo % tar czvf foo apache-foo-src.tar.gz % zip -R foo apache-foo-src.tar.gz automatics have a long history of not quite working. maven 2 now works but it was a long struggle... > > this ensures that the source is > > exactly what's in version control and so give better replicatability. > > i would prefer the dist target to create simple binary compressed > > artifacts containing generated site documentation and jar. this would > > be a break from tradition. > > is it? what would be missing? a lot of stuff which IMHO isn't needed JAMES prefers to copy stuff from the working checkout into dist and then creates source and binary distributions in dist/product/downloads i prefer just to create binary distributions directly in dist and create source distributions by hand - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
