[hibernate-dev] building core from master

[Steve Ebersole]

On Thursday, March 31, 2011, at 11:52 am, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 15:28, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> > Just because eclipse might not like it does not make it broken ;)
> 
> It's your choice to make it hard to develop on Hibernate core in Eclipse.

Thats one way to look at it.  One point of view.  Of course a just as valid 
point of view is that Eclipse is making it difficult.  

> 
> You can fix it on Hibernate side - I can't fix Eclipse core fundamentals.

Well as John already said, he was able to verify that it does in fact work in 
Eclipse.  So obviously *they* don't think its a broken set up.  Thats just 
your opinion.  Perhaps maybe the concern is that it possibly does not work in 
JBoss Tools...


> 
> /max
> 
> > 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 at hibernate.org>
> > http://hibernate.org
> 
> /max
> http://about.me/maxandersen

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