[Opensource] Re: eForum Kicking Tires

[Michael Rimov]

At 10:10 AM 7/22/02 -0700, you wrote:
>hi David,
>
>you get 2 awards from me, for best description of a new-build problem and 
>most patient, persistent new-build debugger.

+1 :)

>Mike R. recently removed .jar files from the /lib directory in favor of a 
>download package.  This means that building requires both source checkout 
>and a library download/unpack.

Yes.... for a couple of reasons actually.  The biggest was sheer 
bandwidth..  Having them in CVS was actually keeping people with low 
bandwith connections from ever being able to really work with Expresso 
development.  Especially when you're dealing with people in countries that 
have to pay by the minute for their internet connections.  Constantly doing 
CVS update with the jars in CVS was too heavy of an operation.

>Mike, if many people expect that a CVS checkout is sufficient to build 
>(not a bad assumption), consider reinstating the .jars in CVS, or perhaps 
>create a new pre-build target which ascertains the existence of the .jars 
>in their required location, and spits out a clear error message about how 
>to fix the problem the jars are not found.

Yes... Brian Showalter is also working on this and I will get something 
better online as soon as I can.  When I get a chance I will also be 
updating the CVS info page since people always have to look there to get 
started.


                                                 -Mike