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| − | + | * No regeneration of build.xml after changing a project's dependencies. Each project's build should ideally do whatever it takes to work before and after changes to that project's dependency list. | |
| − | + | * Dependencies are versioned. We should be able at worst to cause a build to use a specified CVS tag for all dependencies, and ideally, we should be able to specify a cvs tag for each dependency. | |
| − | + | * Single place for dependencies. Right now, we've decided to list them in manifest.mf. Because this file doesn't allow us to control its contents, we're restricted from doing things like #2 above. Moreover, it sounds like build.properties must also in some cases be updated with dependencies when there's a need to differentiate between build libs and runtime libs. I think we should be updating our own dependencies.xml file, and that should be used to auto-gen, or update the manifest.mf as appropriate. | |
| − | + | * Any automated process should mirror manual processes. If I pull down a project into a fresh work area and run it's build (which automates the process of gathering dependencies), the result should look the same as if I had manually gathered all those dependencies. Also, the fetched dependencies should remain in place and be usable at a later time. | |
Revision as of 19:52, 22 October 2007
List of current enhancement candidates
- These initial candidate ideas were provided by Jim Sermersheim
- No regeneration of build.xml after changing a project's dependencies. Each project's build should ideally do whatever it takes to work before and after changes to that project's dependency list.
- Dependencies are versioned. We should be able at worst to cause a build to use a specified CVS tag for all dependencies, and ideally, we should be able to specify a cvs tag for each dependency.
- Single place for dependencies. Right now, we've decided to list them in manifest.mf. Because this file doesn't allow us to control its contents, we're restricted from doing things like #2 above. Moreover, it sounds like build.properties must also in some cases be updated with dependencies when there's a need to differentiate between build libs and runtime libs. I think we should be updating our own dependencies.xml file, and that should be used to auto-gen, or update the manifest.mf as appropriate.
- Any automated process should mirror manual processes. If I pull down a project into a fresh work area and run it's build (which automates the process of gathering dependencies), the result should look the same as if I had manually gathered all those dependencies. Also, the fetched dependencies should remain in place and be usable at a later time.