Re: frameworks build into project root

From: Mike Schrag (mschra..dimension.com)
Date: Wed May 23 2007 - 16:21:23 EDT

  • Next message: Sacha Michel Mallais: "Re: frameworks build into project root"

    You guys don't count as two votes! I coalesce you into a single
    vote. Take that.

    ms

    On May 23, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:

    >
    > 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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