FYI: Build system rewrite in Ant

Robert Field robert.field at oracle.com
Wed Apr 1 22:26:47 UTC 2015


On 04/01/15 01:33, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> Each time a new version of the file is committed to the mercurial repo, the developer just has to add a new committed-change stanza to the block in the .Ingeg_Manif.xml file. Since the changeset ID is not known before hand, the Integrity Manifest file must be updated in a subsequent commit.

Please, tell me this is an April Fools joke!

Each time you edit a Java file you need to update the XML file. This is 
a step back in usability not forward.

-Robert



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