[hibernate-dev] Build and AnnotationProcessors

[Steve Ebersole]

On Wed 17 Apr 2013 11:44:18 AM CDT, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
>
> On 17 Jan 2013, at 6:30 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
>
>> AFAIK the reason we originally had a separate phase for annotation
>> processors was to workaround the following javac bug:
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6512707
>
>  From a Maven perspective (not an ORM issue longer) there is/was also
> the issue of configuring the annotation processors in the compiler plugin.
> There are several unresolved Jira issues for that, but according to David
> they are resolved, even though I cannot see any reference of that in the
> Maven issue tracker.

Right, would not affect ORM anyway.


>> On command line users.. I'd agree with Hardy that we likely all prefer
>> building from the command line rather than from the IDE, but I don't
>> expect that to be the majority of users.
>
> So what do you do when you are interested in some project and want to check it out?
> Get the sources and load it directly in your IDE. IMO that is stupid. I first build at least
> once from the command line and have a look at the generated directories. Does the
> build work? Can I make sense off things w/o knowing much about the code?
> Only then I would start using an IDE and I expect that a developer can set up his
> IDE of choice.

So when someone does something different than you they are stupid... 
nice :)