[Libreoffice] [RFC] use of apache ant in libreoffice

[Kohei Yoshida]

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 20:06 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Kohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What I like about ant is that you don't need to list every single java
> > source file you need to compile, whereas in make you do (unless I'm
> > missing something).  That makes a huge difference and makes the ant
> > build script very small regardless of the number of source files.
> 
> That is true. Fortunately some of the piece we are talking about (like
> the java stuff in scripting for instance) hardly every change.
> the scripting/java directory has seen 23 commit in 3 1/2 years, only 2
> of them having a possible impact on the build (as in adding/removing
> java files)
> So that negative point may not be that much of a hurdle. 

That is certainly true.  Then I'll be okay with the removal of ant on
those modules.

> I haven't
> checked for other modules, and I certainly agree that for
> java-extensions and external java module like tomcat we probably don't
> want to go that route...

Yup.  But wow, isn't tomcat a http server?  What do we even use tomcat
for? ;-)

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc