On 2011-11-16, at 6:00 PM, Hugi Thordarson wrote: >> Every person in Iceland works on iTunes?!!? :-P > > :) > > >> After two beers, everything is burry to David. > > Not just David if I recall correctly :-p
*burry*? Clearly two beers aren't required either. ;-) > > >>>> Ant is pretty simple. Mostly I don't even think about the Ant portion of >>>> my WO projects other than to tell Hudson that it has to issue an Ant >>>> command to build the project. >>> >>> Before you can even think about building WO projects using Ant you have to >>> at least have woproject.jar in your Ant plugin classpath. And then, the >>> only reason you don't think much about Ant is that Someone Else wrote a >>> >200 line Ant script for you (that you are required to copy verbatim for >>> each and every WO project you create. How's that for reusability). >> >> As opposed to copying and editing a pom.xml? > > Well, yes. There's nothing redundant in a pom. There's a shitload of > redundancy in build.xml. > > >>> The initial setup of a Maven environment for WO development may take an >>> hour or two—that's because WO is proprietary and thus requires some >>> installation. But once your environment is properly set up, Maven works >>> great. I started out the easy way—just added a "pom.xml" to my standard >>> frameworks alongside the "build.xml"-files (like Project Wonder does). But >>> eventually, you'll want to use all the amazing features Maven has to offer. >> >> Like having to edit each pom when you make a new non-SNAPSHOT version? > > Currently, WO/Wonder development is all about snapshots, so you don't have to > worry about that. If you like the current WO way of doing releases (which is > just ignoring versions at all) do everything with snaphsots and use the > pom.xml as a build.xml. > > As for myself, I think that's a bad development practice and Maven helps you > kick it — *if* you want to. > > >>> And it's so much simpler than the 200+ lines of procedural code every >>> single simple little WO application requires to even build with Ant. >> >> But you don't have to mess with that. > > That's because it's a glorified shell script used to invoke javac, and > doesn't do anything interesting. Unlike pom.xml, where every line is > meaningful. > > - hugi _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/dleber_wodev%40codeferous.com > > This email sent to dleber_wo...@codeferous.com -- David LeBer Codeferous Software 'co-def-er-ous' adj. Literally 'code-bearing' site: http://codeferous.com blog: http://davidleber.net profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidleber twitter: http://twitter.com/rebeld -- Toronto Area Cocoa / WebObjects developers group: http://tacow.org _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
