Re: Eclipse and Classpath

[Michael Koch]

Am Freitag, 23. April 2004 10:33 schrieb Thomas:
> 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.

I'm not sure its possible at all to build whole Classpath with ant. Does 
ant handle building native libraries ? automake/autoconf/libtool does 
all we need in a portable manner. I dont understand why you bitch it.


Michael