On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> <project name="Cocoon">
> <target name="main">
> <mkdir dir="build"/>
> <javac srcdir="src" destdir="build"/>
> <jar jarfile="cocoon.jar" basedir="build" items="org/apache/cocoon"/>
> </target>
> <target name="clean">
> <deltree dir="build"/>
> </target>
> </project>
> now, please, tell me: would any make be _this_ simple? ;)
Yes.
SRC=*.java
DEST=cocoon.jar
OBJ=${SRC:.java=.class}
.class.java:
$(JAVA) $(JAVA_FLAGS) $<
$(DEST): $(OBJ)
$(JAR) $(JAR_FLAGS) $(OBJ)
clean:
rm -f $(OBJ) $(DEST)
or there about (usual not-tested disclaimer ;-)...
> I _strongly_ propose that we use Ant to build all the Apache pure-java
> projects. For non-pure stuff, it might get trickier, but still you could
> have ant called by make for the java part (as tomcat will do).
>
> I suggest you people to take a look at it, if you haven't done so.
But seriously, the issue is more complex; we have limited developer's and
a limited grasp on their time.
So
1. if we use make; we cause the casual window's developers to
have to install some free or commercial tools. Any developer
more experienced, either on windows, mac or unix will already
have done so. And they can either use their commercial tool
or use make, which they propably have. The beginners will have to
fetch make; at the cost of a download and learn it. But there are
O'Reilly books for this :-) If ness. you could generate dos BATCH
files from the make's.
2. If we use 'ant'; we have to a) get an Ant project underway to
make sure it meet all our needs. b) get the more experienced
developers to take out time to learn use it, and c) the same
of the newer developers.
So with '1.' I see a beginner hurdle, a one off investment for a small
part of the developer population (but still a valuable part!) and with
'2.' we have to get _every_ devleoper to take a hit _and_ we have to get
Ant further developed. Taking a further hit on the mind real estate.
That, in short, causes me to prefer '1' - pure make (not even GNU make,
but the most old/primitive version of it all...).
Dw.
