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From: Jason Dillon <jason@planet57.com>
Subject: Re: windows build hell
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:09:46 -0700
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Sender: Jason Dillon <jason.dillon@gmail.com>

I agree that someone will always ask... and we just point them to the  
URL with the docs.

No need to automate anything to complain... I'm not even sure how I  
would go about doing that.  I think it is fine to force Java 1.4 and  
kill the build early if its not what we need... but I think the  
directory name where you build from is a bit more user specific  
preference.

I'd lean on the documentation here for these windows-specific  
issues... or unless you are saying that windows users can't ready :- 
P  Do we need to make a little dancing paper clip animation to annoy  
our users into reading the docs... or maybe even read it to them?

:-P

--jason


On Sep 1, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Jacek Laskowski wrote:

> On 9/1/06, Jason Dillon <jason@planet57.com> wrote:
>> I would just tell windows users to use c:\g or map a directory to g:\
>> and be done with it.
>
> Yes, but it would help them a bit. No matter how much papers you're
> going to write they'll be some who will ask about it. I don't know how
> hard it would be to do it, but if it's not a big deal, I'd go for it.
>
> Jacek
>
> -- 
> Jacek Laskowski
> http://www.laskowski.net.pl