Re: [jdee] Automated Build (#3)

Phil Lord <[email protected]> writes:

> With Marmalade, this would be possible, I think, unless Nic has
> specially blocked it. With ELPA this might be possible, but ELPA
> requires copyright assignment, which is just not going to happen short
> term. 

The term "ELPA" means "Emacs Lisp Package Archive"; it does not refer to
any particular repository of packages. It means a repository that can be
accessed by the Emacs package API.

I believe you are actually refering to "Gnu ELPA" here; the ELPA
repository containing FSF packages, at http://elpa.gnu.org/.

> JDEE currently has the nightmare of Emacs Lisp build with ant. Let's
> build emacs-lisp with cask, Java with maven. Any otherway lies, well,
> lies this:
>
>     <exec dir="${build.lisp.escaped.dir}"
> 	  executable="${build.bin.emacs}" failonerror="true">
>       <arg value="--no-site-file"/>
>       <arg value="--batch"/>
>       <arg value="--load"/>
>       <arg value="${build.lisp.dst.escaped.file}"/>
>     </exec>

I was tempted to complain about that as well :). My reaction was
"exactly how is this better than a Makefile line?".

-- 
-- Stephe

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