Re: [JBoss-dev] Re: Why go forward with buildmagic?

[Scott M S. <sco...@at...>]

As stated in other email, I want to know exactly what bm is saving me in terms
of build.xml task constructs so I'm interested in diff between the bm vs Ant alone
setup.

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Scott Stark
Chief Technology Officer
JBoss Group, LLC
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <joe...@us...>
To: <jbo...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:37 AM
Subject: [JBoss-dev] Re: Why go forward with buildmagic?


> Hi All,
> 
> I am an escapee from the jboss-user-request list, but thought that I
> should chime in with my .02 worth as a dedicated JBoss user.
> 
> We have been using JBoss in our projects since last year and love it.
> However, we always had problems working with the
> buildmagic stuff. We are dedicated Ant users and use Ant for all of our
> projects. After looking through the buildmagic stuff, I
> became convinced that *most* of the functionality could be done in
> straight Ant, and in fact we are in the middle of porting all
> of the JBoss build routines to straight Ant...primarily because we
> already have Ant scripts that can be easily incorporated into the
> build routine that run our shop QA tests and generate custom .html build
> reports.
> 
> So *for what it's worth*, from a user's point of view...we would love it
> if Ant *officially* because the build tool of JBoss without the
> buildmagic wrapper...
> 
> Best,
> Joel