[Biojava-l] Re: Preparation for a 1.1 release?

[Jason Stajich]

Thomas - I'd like to see a move to ant, I think it will be easier in the
long run, I've had trouble with the build.Builder running out of memory on
solaris - yet no problem on an NT box using various versions of sun's jdk
and now j2se.  

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Thomas Down wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:40:10PM -0500, Michael L. Heuer wrote:
> > 
> > There is an ant file in cvs already, but it does not do everything the
> > Builder code and scripts do.  If people were willing to move forward with
> > some sort of test harness, I can update the ant build script accordingly.
> 
> When we were sorting out the original BioJava build system
> there was a certain amount of resistance to using ANT, mainly
> because it was non-standard.  Since then, it's shown every
> sign of becoming the standard build tool for big Java projects.
> I've just been glancing through the documentation, and  I have to
> admit that it looks pretty nice.
> 
> If anyone is worried about an extra download for new developers,
> we can always put ant.jar in the source tree (like we do for 
> xerces.jar and bytecode.jar).
> 
> I'd be happy to see a transition to ant over the next couple
> of months.  If everyone is happy with it, we can gracefully
> retire the old builder (really just a quick hack I wrote in
> a few hours) after the 1.1 release.
> 
> Thomas.
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Jason Stajich
jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
Center for Human Genetics
Duke University Medical Center 
http://www.chg.mc.duke.edu/