[hibernate-dev] building core from master

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

>> 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
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