[Qt-jambi-interest] Should I merge the build branch into the master branch?

[Francis Galiegue]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> I have a workaround for this: I can modify the build system to check
> whether ant-contrib is present in a subdirectory of the build tree,
> fail and tell where to download it otherwise. That's the easy solution
> for me, and a pain in the <beep> for the user. Or better, I can write
> a Java program to download it directly into this directory if it
> doesn't exist. That's less easy for me, easy for the users, and it's
> doable.
>

Well, in fact, this will be easier: there's a "get" task that can
donwload a file, heh. Sample build.xml:

<project name="dl" default="doit" basedir=".">

    <property name="tmpdir" value="tmp"/>
    <property name="extjar" value="extjar"/>
    <property name="url"
        value="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ant-contrib/ant-contrib/1.0b3/ant-contrib-1.0b3-bin.zip"/>

    <target name="dl">
        <mkdir dir="${tmpdir}"/>
        <get src="${url}" dest="${tmpdir}/ant-contrib.zip" usetimestamp="true"
            verbose="true"/>
    </target>

    <target name="extract" depends="dl">
        <unzip src="${tmpdir}/ant-contrib.zip" dest="${tmpdir}"/>
    </target>

    <target name="docopy" depends="extract">
        <mkdir dir="${extjar}"/>
        <copy file="${tmpdir}/ant-contrib/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"
            tofile="${extjar}/ant-contrib.jar"/>
    </target>

    <target name="doit" depends="docopy">
        <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"
            classpath="${extjar}/ant-contrib.jar"/>
        <var name="a" value="b"/>
        <var name="a" value="c"/>
        <echo message="a is ${a}"/>
    </target>
</project>

I now need to integrate this into the build system.

I also think there should be a separate distclean target along with
clean: clean wouldn't get rid of ant-contrib.jar, and the like... So
much to do :p

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