On May 23, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Sacha Michel Mallais wrote:
> On May 23, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>
>> This has always totally annoyed me. The default build.xml's in
>> WOLips build .woa's into the dist folder, but frameworks into the
>> project root. The problem with this (besides that writing build
>> artifacts into the project root is just wonky) is that Entity
>> Modeler has no idea that it is supposed to skip over that model
>> (you basically end up with two models of the same name), which is
>> bad.
>>
>> Anyway -- what do people think about changing the default
>> build.xml's to produce framework builds into "dist" (which EM
>> already knows to skip)?
>
> My preference is that intermediate build products go in a directory
> somewhere (bin), but that the final build product goes in the
> project root. I never did like creating a directory that contains
> only a single file/dir.
+ 1
> My greater preference, however, is for the two build systems (f/w
> and app) to put the final build product in a similar location by
> default, in accordance with the Principle of Least Astonishment.
+10
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