Re: [groovy-dev] Groovy Build System

Hans Dockter schrieb:
> 
> On May 15, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
> 
>> Paul King schrieb:
>>> I vote betamax! 
>>> No, not getting into the debate. I think we are in early days
>>> in the build tool wars and I would like to think all sides will
>>> greatly improve over the coming year or so.
>>> I just had one point to make with Russel's comment below:
>>>> [...] The current Ant build for
>>>> example handles all these issues thanks to Paul's sterling efforts.
>>> Actually, there are still some manual steps which Jochen does
>>> which we could (should!) automate but haven't yet.
>>
>> yes... I would for example not like to upload the javadoc  on our 
>> website without rsync. rsync is very fast and the docs are mostly not 
>> changing much (if 10% of the pages do change it is already very much). 
>> rsync is very nice here, because t checks the files on the server and 
>> uploads only the files I really need. Since I have a slow internet 
>> connection (128kb upstream only), it is very nice to have that part 
>> done in a short time.
> 
> I would have thought Stuttgart is a high bandwidth paradise :).

I have a VDSL box in front of my house, so I could be much faster... 
well, there are different reasons I use the current conncetion and have 
not switched yet

>> Uploading one zip takes easily 15 minutes here. I do upload the zips 
>> manually, because what ever is used for the zips to upload seems to 
>> simply stop if there is a connection problem.. well maybe it is not 
>> like this anymore, because uploading the jars usually works... but 
>> they are smaller.. don't know. What I also have to do manually is 
>> changing the version information and doing the branching.. but doing 
>> the branching did become so easy with svn... that's not a problem. 
>> Then there is also that "ant deploy" does many things "ant dist" does 
>> too... like building the javadoc... our build takes not very long, but 
>> it would be nice to not to have to run it multiple times.
> 
> I think its nice when its fully automated. That way the process is 
> described in an executable document (the build script). It is reliable 
> and imposes less stress. It can also be easily done when you are on 
> holiday ;).

hehe, true

bye blackdrag

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