Hi Rickard, I am the one who's deteriorated this, so I feel guilty of not having explained this further. If you disagree with me, heck, stuff it back in! ;-)
----- Original Message ----- From: Rickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:12 am Subject: [Xdoclet-devel] Self sufficiency > Hey > > Now that it seems XDoclet merging has quieted down I thought I'd > give it > a shot. But now I see that it is no longer a self-sufficient > project: > Ant needs to be installed separately. Why is this? What was wrong > with > including ant and the batch files to run it? Also, it seems that The problem with this approach is that it opens for the possibility to configure classpaths and paths in our own bat/sh scripts (system classpath). This means that if you try to run the Ant scripts from whithin an IDE (which does not invoke Ant via the bat/sh script and therefore might have a different system classpath), then the build might fail. Doing without a custom bat/sh script means that the classpaths have to be more carefully handled in the build.xml scripts, but they will be more "portable". If we base our build on Ant's standard batch scripts, we reduce the risk of things not working in different environments. A second reason is to minimise the size of the distro. It is a common practice for many projects not to be "self sufficient", but to require the download of other packages separately. It's like bundling JDK with your application: Some do it others don't. IMHO both JDK and Ant are common enough so you'd expect people to have them installed already. Of course, we need to document this clearly (especially when the version we require is new and beta). I've added a TODO for that: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=31602&atid=466371 (Please use this TODO list more folks) 3 steps are therefore required: 1) download and unpack Ant 1.5+ 2) SET ANT_HOME=C:\jakarta-ant-1.5Beta1 3) SET PATH=%ANT_HOME%\bin;%PATH% (or equivalent on unix) > one has > to set ant.home now. Is this correct? Is this documented somewhere? Currently not documented, only in mailing lists and the FAQ. If you invoke the standard ant.bat/sh/pl/py from the path above, ant.home will be set for you (based on your ANT_HOME environment variable). > > /Rickard > > -- > Rickard Öberg > > Aslak > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.co > > _______________________________________________ > Xdoclet-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-devel > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Xdoclet-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xdoclet-devel
