Hello Devs,
As I was again studying the main build.xml script I was
searching for the most common task that
bootstraps all activities. Such a task right now is
"rebuld", but since it merely depends on clean
and make, let's take a look at "make". What make
does is compile sources and package bundles.
However, I feel that something is missing in the whole
picture. I feel the need of a task that
would just copy all the files, needed for a
platform-independent distribution, into a separate
folder and then possibly zip them or tar.gzip them.
Such a target could be named "dist" (from
"distribution"). It could even be used for several
types
of distributions - binary production distro, binary debug
distro, source distro, etc. This reminds
me of the "make install" command that does a
similar job for the C/C++ projects.
This is somehow related to my work on the RPM packages. As a
newcommer, I had difficulties
realizing what goes where after I build the sources. I mean,
it would be great to have the
structure in a "dist/" folder ready for packaging
(maybe that's what "release/" is all about).
What do you think?
--Pavel Tankov
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