Re: Upgrade to 9 questions

It's been a while since I looked. but isn't the driver target a dependency
for the actual compilation target? I seem to recall that all I did when I
built it was to download it, change directory into the distribution, and
type 'ant'. It's pretty hard to ask for a simpler build process than that,
I think.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> wrote:

> Albert Kurucz wrote:
> > Oliver,
> >
> > What command do I need to give to Ant to make the necessary
> substitutions?
>
> The slightly misleadingly named target "driver" will configure the build
> environment and do all the substitutions, but not actually compile the
> result. So: "ant driver"
>
> > Why source files are not release after preprocessing?
>
> Because the substitutions that are needed are different depending on
> your build environment e.g. which JDBC version and JDK you are building
> for. The ant buildfile handles both detecting your build environment and
> performing suitable substitutions. Releasing multiple source
> distributions, each of which only works for one environment, where the
> only difference is in the 3-4 templated files - that'd be confusing and
> unnecessary when the build process already handles it, don't you think?
>
> > Java source files please for the non Ant users!
>
> I don't think we really support building the driver except via ant, it
> is something of a de-facto standard for building Java these days. (Ok,
> now the Maven people are going to yell at me ;-))
>
> Consider it a prerequisite for building the driver, just like having a
> functional JDK installed is a prerequisite.
>
> -O
>
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