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

[Bryan Kearney]

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?

:)

-- bk