[esb-dev] build error

[Mark Little]

I don't think we have the time for a revamp. I'm in favour of a band- 
aid approach (just don't let Bob Geldorf near the code!), or leaving  
it as is.

Mark.


On 28 Jun 2007, at 12:34, Kevin Conner wrote:

> Tom Fennelly wrote:
>> If we were going to spend time on the build scripts, I'd vote for
>> looking at ways to simplify them altogether rather than patching them
>> more with timers etc.  I think once we simplify them, we'll be in a
>> better position to sort out issues around making it run quicker.
>
> If we had the time to spend then I would agree, in fact my vote  
> would be
> a move to maven ;)
>
> As things stand, an issue has been raised over the time the build  
> takes
> to run.  We can choose to rewrite it totally or just patch it up  
> but our
> time is the main constraint.  We may be able to put a 'band aid' on  
> the
> current build to alleviate this issue without spending too much time.
>
>> The product/build.xml has 33 targets in it >:o .  As I see it, the  
>> whole
>> thing is overly hierarchical with build.xml files at nearly every  
>> level
>> + separate build.xml files for testing etc.  Many of the property  
>> names
>> are so long that it becomes very difficult to distinguish between  
>> them.
>> I think we're overly fixated with trying to make the build scripts  
>> super
>> intelligent ala "I want to be able to run any target and have the  
>> build
>> figure out what else needs to be run" resulting in every target being
>> dependent on every other target up and down the build.
>
> Having the build files being hierarchical is not really the issue,  
> it is
> just an artifact of the way the codebase has evolved.  Having a common
> base build file would also alleviate the issue of having different  
> build
> files for tests etc and make it almost irrelevant.
>
>> Sorry for going on a bit.  It's just that our build is something that
>> drives me bats.
>>
>> KISS :-*
>
> +1
>
> 	Kev
>
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