Refactoring JavaFX Builds & Sources

[steve.x.northover at oracle.com]

Hilarious, I was typing about the same thing.  I love IDE's but if you 
want to be picked up by a Linux distribution, you have to have a command 
line build.

Stege

On 19/10/2012 9:10 AM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
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>> Another point: I see that the ultimate goal is to be able to build 
>> from an IDE, and this is fine. However, I think that building from 
>> command line should still be supported and not require any more than 
>> it requires now ...
>
> I would go farther than that and state:
>
> Building from the IDE is a very nice developer convenience.
>
> Building from the command line is the primary way the product is built 
> and must be supported for developer builds.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Anthony Petrov wrote:
>> On 10/18/2012 11:16 PM, Richard Bair wrote:
>>> In addition to code generation, we also build a ton of native code 
>>> (gstreamer, webkit, prism, fonts, glass, image loading). So that has 
>>> to fit into the build system. Building native code is SLOW, so being 
>>> able to avoid it for "normal" developers, and being able to avoid 
>>> native builds when nothing changed in the native code, is important.
>>
>> Building native code may be slow in general, but building e.g. Glass 
>> takes under a minute. Of course I agree that if code hasn't changed, 
>> it shouldn't be re-built.
>>
>> One more point: presently we can clone the repository and build just 
>> glass itself (which is very fast as I mentioned above). This is 
>> useful for quick testing, and also we have a Glass-only demo app that 
>> doesn't depend on FX, so we can work on Glass w/o even building the 
>> whole FX right now. Can we make the new build system support this 
>> kind of partial builds (at least for Glass)?
>>
>> Another point: I see that the ultimate goal is to be able to build 
>> from an IDE, and this is fine. However, I think that building from 
>> command line should still be supported and not require any more than 
>> it requires now (which is basically just `cd to-my-repo && ant`).
>>
>> -- 
>> best regards,
>> Anthony