[hibernate-dev] building core from master

[Steve Ebersole]

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

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