On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Anjo Krank wrote:
> Am 25.01.2007 um 15:56 schrieb Gavin Eadie:
>
>> I've wondered to what extent aspects of WebObjects becoming more
>> 'Java-native' may be advantages to the WOLips support people are
>> working so hard on. It's not possible to have this be a
>> conversation because anyone who can respond in a knowledgeable way
>> is bound by an NDA to be silent. Maybe the best that can happen
>> right now is for me to ask anyone who is WOLips savvy and can
>> explore the future of Apple's WebObjects support, to keep an eye
>> open for synergy.
>
> I for my part have so given up on hope that Apple is doing anything
> useful related to WO in a reasonable time frame that I'm far less
> hesitant to do anything I deem necessary in order to get the
> results I need to get my work done than I was a few years ago. This
> includes eg. the replacement of NSMutableArray in Wonder so we
> finally have reasonable collection support but certainly doesn't
> stop there.
I think Anjo is correct. If you are expecting Cool New WO Tools
from Apple, you are dreaming. Nothing wrong with dreaming, but it
does not get one's work done.
>> If, for example, WebObjects builds in XCode were to be driven by
>> ant, instead of jam, could those ant configurations operate
>> standalone, or could and the conventions they use (eg: 'src',
>> 'lib' etc directory names) be the same, or conveniently compatible?
>
> As woproject builds do run just fine - and in case they don't, this
> failure is under our rather timely control to fix - I see no
> reason to create or maintain any form of compatibility with
> hypothetical XCode based ant builds. In particular, the Wonder-
> based builds are going to stay as they are with the naming
> convention that is in use there.
I don't see any reason why woproject based builds would not work
under Xcode with the Ant support. Ideally, they would model their
Ant support after the pre-existing woproject, but I really doubt that
will be the case. On the other hand, we might learn something new
from someone approaching it from a different perspective.
> If others want to do the work, fine, but only if it is guaranteed
> that the builds as they currently are run and continue to run for
> quite some time.
I totally agree. I personally don't see any advantage to using Xcode
and don't want current builds to break to support it.
Chuck
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