Re: Eclipse and Classpath

[Thomas]

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On Thursday 22 April 2004 23:44, S. Meslin-Weber wrote:
> Hi Thomas, Tom,
>
> I personally do use eclipse, both with just project files and ant scripts.
> I have found that both have problems.

As one collegue does use Eclipse (on Windows even) I write most ant files in 
such a way that they do work.
At least for us...

> I don't believe that Tom would suggest using these project files as the
> sole means of building GNU Classpath, only as a means to start people off
> using Eclipse for development. One of the complaints commonly voiced by
> those wishing to join any OSS development project is the relatively high
> setup cost; this would make entry easier.

I noticed that; but the point is more towards maintainance; someone needs to 
maintain the file. This in itself is not too much of a problem, but if you 
account for the fact that we need a couple of other build-systems to reach 
the goal of lowering setup cost, the one-base-covers-all aprouch of an ant 
build file is a lot cheaper in the long run.
There is nothing worse then a badly maintained build file; even not having one 
in the first place.

I never build classpath before; the challenge to get it compiling delayed it 
somewhat.  If someone can build an ant file that works (even just in concept) 
then I'm certainly willing to look at fixing any portability problems.

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Regards
Thomas
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