Re: [hibernate-dev] building core from master

>> 2)Eclipse >> the configuration files generated by gradle are totally wrong, but I >> could fix them by hand. >> Now Eclipse refuses to compile the project as there's a circular >> dependency: the testsuite from hibernate-core depends on the >> hibernate-testing module, which in turn depends on hibernate-core. > > This was intentional. Both gradle and intellij can handle this. I asked > max and he said that such a set up was in some way workable. I said it was probably possibly to workaround/hack, but I did not at all recommend it. It's a broken setup IMO. > I dont understand what is so foreign about this "circularity". Look at > it at the task level. You compile hibernate-core/src/main; you compile > hibernate- testing/src/main; you compile hibernate-core/src/test. Yes > there is "circularity" if you look strictly at this in terms of modules. > But in terms of tasks and source sets there is not. There is of project dependencies - which is the level eclipse is working on. Just because the compile setup is possible doesn't make it right IMO. /max http://about.me/maxandersen