Installing Ant (was: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-turbine-flux/build build.bat)

[Jon Stevens <jo...@latchkey.com>]

on 7/5/01 9:22 AM, "Berin Loritsch" <bl...@apache.org> wrote:

> I am against that type build script anyway.  A self contained package would
> have all required jars in the CVS--that way you can get away from the cross-
> project build scripts.

Berin,

Installing Ant is the right way to do things.

Turbine does have a self contained build with regards to all of the required
jar files. All we expect is that you will install the build system. I
personally have no desire to maintain a bazillion different build.sh and
build.bat files and am glad that we have stopped doing this. Lots of other
projects have also adopted this system as well.

Also, just as Josh Lucas (who is a *master* build system maintainer...he
works for CollabNet in exactly this role) says, installing Ant is like
installing make. I would expect to download other OSS software and have it
come with a copy of make. The *only* thing that Turbine requires you to
install is Ant. Everything else is already there in the turbine/lib
directory.

Needless to say, complaining about it here isn't going to change anything
because I would be strongly -1 on having it any other way, so this
discussion is moot anyway. :-)

-jon


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