Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Ant build script to compile, doc, package, rpm

Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:50:10AM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote: >> Daniel Veillard wrote: >>> As a result this makes an huge change in the way things are processed >>> or generated. I'm unable to really assert if it is really positive for >>> the project and Java devel or will give us more problem down the line. >>> I think in the end my opinion is probably not very important as I'm >>> not a Java head, but I'm still left wondering ! >> >> I believe that ant is more "typical" to java build then the autobuild >> tooling. In addition, with the removal of the c code.. much of the >> makefile magic from autobuild is no longer needed. I am happy to >> discuss moving it back to autobuild if this is a big issue. > > Well ... I should not be the one giving the direction here, I guess > Java people are far more used to build with ant than auto* . This can > probably provide portability to Windows for free too (assuming we > can interface with mingw build, which would be nice to test and fix > if needed at some point). > Let's say I'm surprized but in retrospect this is normal :-) > I will take this to mean "I hate ant, but if it make the java folks happy.. ok.. since I dont have to maintian it". Is that fair? :)