On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:58:32AM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote: > 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? > > :) Hum ... actually I don't hate ant, I just think XML for this is weird to say the least, but I'm fine with the end of the sentence ! BTW since you now have the house keys (i.e. commit access) feel free to push the new code to git http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-java.git;a=summary since Jim Meyering also converted the old CVS repo and pushed the new tree on libvirt.org. Now I need to update the java bindings page, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list