Jason van Zyl wrote:
>
> > It's just so much easier.
>
> We've discussed this before. It is much simpler to have no scripts,
> and as a developer installing Ant shouldn't be a barrier. Most projects
> at Jakarta are moving away from build scripts and requiring an Ant install.
> I once too liked having scripts but it proved to be a hassle and
> I have found having Ant installed to be much more convenient when
> dealing with a large number of projects.
I guess that's the whole problem. I prefer to have only a couple of
projects at a time. If I am using Turbine, then I want to check out
just Turbine--not Tomcat, Servlet API, Regexp, etc. as well. A self
contained build process just makes sense to me. It also gives some
stability as to what is officially designed against.
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