Buildable source packages

[Mike Kienenberger <mk...@gmail.com>]

Moving this to a separate thread:

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Andrus Adamchik
<an...@objectstyle.org> wrote:
> It is practically impossible to do that as the
> build system is ... well, complex. I am sure most non-C Apache projects
> won't let you build from sources in the distro.

I wasn't really going to respond to this since I didn't think there
was any ambiguity in the requirements.   But since it's come up...

All of the other Apache java projects I've used can build from the
distro source release.

I don't see making cayenne build from the distro as an impossible
task.  If the svn checkout can build, then it should be a simple
matter to copy that build tree into the distro.

I will agree that's an ugly build system, but that's been the case
ever since we switched to maven.

Re: Buildable source packages

[Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org>]

I am not against us providing it (if somebody cares to write it), but  
I don't think this is required either under my understanding or the  
quoted page (see my other message on why).

Andrus


On Aug 16, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> Moving this to a separate thread:
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Andrus Adamchik
> <an...@objectstyle.org> wrote:
>> It is practically impossible to do that as the
>> build system is ... well, complex. I am sure most non-C Apache  
>> projects
>> won't let you build from sources in the distro.
>
> I wasn't really going to respond to this since I didn't think there
> was any ambiguity in the requirements.   But since it's come up...
>
> All of the other Apache java projects I've used can build from the
> distro source release.
>
> I don't see making cayenne build from the distro as an impossible
> task.  If the svn checkout can build, then it should be a simple
> matter to copy that build tree into the distro.
>
> I will agree that's an ugly build system, but that's been the case
> ever since we switched to maven.
>