Berin Loritsch wrote:
>
> 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.
Turbine and other projects who have dropped the scripts and ant-specific
jars still have a self-contained build process but it does expect you to
have the proper tools installed on your machine. It's the same thing as
expecting make to be on a machine IMO.
I think requiring Ant to be installed is good since now I don't have
multiple copies of ant.jar/xerces.jar on my system.
josh
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