Re: Project folder name in Eclipse .classpath file

Friday, August 15, 2014, 10:26:53 PM, Woonsan Ko wrote:

> Thanks for the remarks, Daniel!
> Yes, I think I followed the steps described in README.txt, using Eclipse
> Luna, IvyDE (with default config) and running `ant update-deps'.
> I can keep the project name as "FreeMarker-master", which should be fine
> with me.
>
> Regarding Ant/Ivy vs Maven, I cannot compare and pick one from those
> myself because my experiences with Ivy is very minimal, but if it
> can be more beneficial to the community with Maven in the future,
> then I'm interested in helping the transition. Also, I now
> understand from build.xml that the transition wouldn't be so easy
> because we have to deal with various things such as compiling
> against 1.4 and 1.5, site doc generation, etc.

Docgen and site are the least of my fears. If nothing else, we can
call Ant snippets from Maven to do those. Nobody cares about that two
anyway. What matters is building the FreeMarker binary itself. There
we have to compile against various Servlet versions, Jython versions,
etc. Those can go into separate Maven modules, so it's maybe not a big
problem so far. But then somehow all those modules will have to go
into a common über artifact, partially for convenience, and partially
for backward compatibility. I don't want a single big monolitic
freemarker.jar thought (that monster is just historical baggage
really), but still there should exist a org.freemarker:freemarker über
artifact that pulls in all the module jars as dependencies. But the
modules have "provided" dependencies of various versions of the same
artifact. I guess I will have to exclude them in the über artifact.
There are further things that can jeopardize this plan, like, ensuring
that the module versions match exactly sounds quite hopeless with the
naive dependency management of Maven. So maybe the über artifact has
to be a single jar after all... /-:

> Anyway, that's great to know. :-)
>
> Have a great weekend!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Woonsan
>
> On 8/15/14 3:39 PM, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>> Mine also have "workspace_loc%3AFreeMarker-master%2Fivysettings.xml"
>> here, and the folder name is "freemarker" on my computer, and it
>> works. "FreeMarker-master" is just the Eclipse project name after all
>> (which of course shouldn't be changed). So I don't know why it didn't
>> work there. Did you follow the instructions in the README.txt too?
>> 
>> As of committing these... well, I hoped it mostly just works if
>> someone checks the project out, and he also has the Ivy plugin
>> installed. Mostly... And if not, then perhaps it's still easier than
>> setting up everything from scratch. Also Eclipse files store stuff
>> like Java compiler preferences, PMD setting (not in FM yet though...),
>> etc., which are really the part project "policy". So that's why I
>> prefer to keep them in the SCM. But if it's too unportable then maybe
>> I should find out something else.
>> 
>> (I also want to get rid of Ant/Ivy one day... if it can just use
>> Maven, that will help a lot for contributors.)
>> 
>
>

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


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