Re: [hibernate-dev] building core from master

Just because eclipse might not like it does not make it broken ;)

On Thursday, March 31, 2011, at 05:14 am, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote: > >> 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 --- Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; http://hibernate.org