Re: frameworks build into project root

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Wed May 23 2007 - 16:09:01 EDT

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    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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