David Blevins <david.blevins@visi.com> wrote on 01/04/2005 04:31:33 AM:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:12:42AM -0500, toby cabot wrote:
> > Jeremy,
> >
> > I agree with the first few bullets.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 07:40:13AM -0800, Jeremy Boynes wrote:
> > > * verification that the src bundle actually builds and results in
the
> > > same binary as we are distibuting
> >
> > Is a src bundle is useful to anyone at this stage of the game? For
> > "real" releases, sure, but for now it might make more sense to release
> > binaries only and point people at the source code control system if
> > they want to build. The problem with people building from the source
> > bundle is that if they try to do anything interesting (like make
> > changes to the code) then they're in trouble since they won't have a
> > mechanism to stay in sync or submit patches that apply cleanly. I
> > think that we've got good enough instructions on the wiki so building
> > from svn isn't much more complicated than building from a tarball.
>
> It'd be nice to have a pure source jar (no build files or anything
> else) that people could hookup to their IDE. Something like the
> src.jar in JAVA_HOME.
>
> -David
That would be nice so that any IDE/tool that operates on a source archive
can be used (not just some IDEs (e.g. eclipse) that have smarts to find
source files in subdirectories of an archive).
John
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