[armedbear-devel] Change the default action of 'build.xml' to 'abcl.clean abcl.wrapper'?
[Including armedbear-devel@ for potential wider dicussion.] On 10/26/09 1:05 PM, Erik Huelsmann wrote: […]
BTW: I'm always doing complete builds; are you too?
Yeah, in fact I think the much more common use case of the build system is 'ant abcl.clean abcl.wrapper'. I almost always want a full build from scratch, which is now taking slightly under two minutes for my MacBook Pro laptop. A couple years ago, a full build took something like five minutes from what I remember, so there was more of a need for incremental builds. What's your usage pattern like? Maybe I should make 'abcl.clean abcl.wrapper' the default target, where the old behavior could be re-restablished via setting an Ant property. This is contrary to the behavior of most build systems that I have experienced, but since we could write a banner message like "Starting build from scratch; set 'abcl.build.incremental' in 'build.properties' to enable incremental builds in the future." Thoughts? -- "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare to it now."
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> wrote:
[Including armedbear-devel@ for potential wider dicussion.]
On 10/26/09 1:05 PM, Erik Huelsmann wrote: […]
BTW: I'm always doing complete builds; are you too?
Yeah, in fact I think the much more common use case of the build system is 'ant abcl.clean abcl.wrapper'. I almost always want a full build from scratch, which is now taking slightly under two minutes for my MacBook Pro laptop. A couple years ago, a full build took something like five minutes from what I remember, so there was more of a need for incremental builds.
What's your usage pattern like? Maybe I should make 'abcl.clean abcl.wrapper' the default target, where the old behavior could be re-restablished via setting an Ant property. This is contrary to the behavior of most build systems that I have experienced, but since we could write a banner message like "Starting build from scratch; set 'abcl.build.incremental' in 'build.properties' to enable incremental builds in the future." Thoughts?
Completely agree to set the default target to that. Having incremental builds supported through a special property like that seems indeed nice to have. I won't be using that, but that probably doesn't mean anything. So: yea, +1 from me to change the default build target. Bye, Erik.
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