Re: [stellation-res] checkin - core consolidation, using Ant to install

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:29 PM 11/27/2002, Dave Shields wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:22:18AM -0500, Jim Wright - IBM Research wrote:
> I also find it strange that Eclipse should make it impossible to use 
> 'build.xml' for
> the Ant build file.

Well, Eclipse uses Ant, and Eclipse generates a build.xml for use by Ant 
(and also
supports manually-generated build.xml files, if needed).

It's not so much that Eclipse makes it "impossible to use 'build.xml'", as 
that
two Ant-related tasks, running in the same directory, will understandably
have a conflict if they try to use the same file for different Ant tasks.

Eclipse does assume it pretty much owns everything in its workspace, which
can be inconvenient (e.g., while we could probably get Eclipse to use a file
named 'build-feature.xml', developers would have to avoid using certain
'Eclipse utility functions, because *they* are hard-wired to overwrite 
build.xml).


> In any event, I have added a new file, build-core.xml, to be used for building
> the core. You can edit, or remove, the core build.xml file as you think best.

Thanks for your efforts towards peaceful coexistence with Eclipse :}

- Jim

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