Re: Reduce cut and paste waste was: Here is my Centipede scepticism

Nick Chalko wrote:
> Mats Henricson wrote:
>> This page currently lists 8 different JavaDoc
>> versions:
>>
>> http://www.junit.org/junit/javadoc/index.htm
> 
> If we could get a MetaData repository to keep track of this kind of 
> version information we could do it automatically.   There has been some 
> talk of this kind of stuff over at apache.  Gump is really focused on 
> the "latest" version.  We may need to modify it decriptors to accomdate 
> version specific meta data.

I think so, because in many settings you are
pretty careful not to use the bleeding edge
versions of all jar files. I was pretty nervous,
for example, when I started to use the latest
Castor, released just a few days ago.

> Agree cut and paste works,  but I got sick of it.  It is to much 
> effort.  If centipede add more complexity than it saves,  don't use it.

Can't really see the problem! I have exactly
two javadoc ant tasks. One at work, one at
home. If I ever start a new project, then I
would copy it, once, and tweak it a little.
I'd guess it takes about 5 minutes, to get
it all right.

> We are working on reducing the complexity, and always welcome help.  
> Even if the helps is just in the form of "This is confusing".

I'm willing to read new tutorials and such.
Send them my way!

Mats




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