Re: Here is my Centipede scepticism

Mats Henricson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.krysalis.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nick Chalko wrote:
> Mats Henricson wrote:
>> Nick Chalko wrote:
>>> But believe me I am happy I have not written a ant task for junit in 
>>> 12 months, on the 9 different projects I am involved in.  5 for pay 
>>> and 4 for free.  Junit.cent does most of what I need.  If I need more 
>>> I add it to the cent and let everyone benifit.
>>
>> Can't see the problem, again. The JUnit task is so simple! 
> 
> It always is at first. so I cut and paste that <include name="*Test"/> 
> patern into all of my projects,  ooops I forgot <exclude name="All*Test"/>.
> Now I need to modify all of myprojects, but I don't.  Some are updated  
> some are not, they all start to diverge.  It was a PAIN, so I looked for 
> a solution beyond xml entities to share ant targets.

OK, that is true.

>>>> Autodownload of jars sounds scary to me, but I'm sure it
>>>> solves real problems in real environments. 
>>>
>>> It is scarry at first.  But so is making sure every developer on your 
>>> team is using the "right" version of xalan, with the "right" version 
>>> of X on each of the projects you work on.  Ruper (autodownload of 
>>> dependent jars) really helps.
>>
>> Hm... but isn't that what you use a repository for?
>> You put the Jars in CVS, as a binary file, and someone
>> updates the Jar files after that person has tested that
>> the new version works well with the current code.
> 
> I hate putting jars in CVS,  it is a waste.

A waste of... what? Disk on the server? I have 45 jars in
my lib directory. They use a whopping 11 MB of disk space.
With HDD now at less than $1 per gigabyte, my jars are
wasting about 1 cent worth (ironically enough ;-) of disk
space.

> We do it but we hate it.

Why?

>>> defined here  
>>> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/krysalis/krysalis-template/krysalis-project/ 
>>
>> Is that directory structure, with these XML files,
>> available as a zip-file anywhere?
> 
> Yes  try cent-seed.

Ah, OK.

Mats




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