----- Original Message ----- From: Arnaud Le Hors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 5:26 PM Subject: Re: Build questions
> Eric Hodges wrote: > > > > We don't use make. Perhaps we should. I don't even think we have make here > > except on our Linux machine. > > There is something I don't understand here. Do you build Xerces yourself > as part of your build or do you simply use the xerces jar we distribute? > It seems to me that doing the latter would allow you to avoid the > problem altogether (assuming you use java 1.2) We build the source. We tried to use the jars, but we found ourselves stepping in to source a lot to find out how to use things. > > > Do you keep 2 package structures in version control to accomodate the > > different org.w3c.dom packages? We have one project we fetch from > > SourceSafe that contains every package. They come out as one tree. As I > > imagine it, we'd have to fetch 2 different trees to 2 different locations, > > create 2 separate build projects for JAXP and the rest of the world, and do > > 2 different builds. Is that how you do it? > > We don't currently do it actually. But yes, that's how I'd do it. I'd > have dom1/org/w3c/dom and dom2/org/w3c/dom and use one or the other in > the relevant part of the build. Ah. See, to me, that's nightmarish. I don't want to double the complexity of our build because of this. And anyway, it sounds like it just plain won't work, regardless of how we build it.
