[ jEdit-devel ] Giving up on fourth try

[Tim P. <ti...@pa...>]

Hi, 

<rant>
I don't have much spare time available to code at home. 
I want to write Sidekick. 
I have now spent four evenings trying to get jEdit to 
a point where I can code on it. 
I guess I have  missed the link 'newbies start here' or something. 

I have been using nothing but Maven for a long time, 
this project shows why. 

I now have some half cobbled together thing that 
is failing to build the XML plugin because it cannot find 

org/apache/commons/net/ftp/FTPClientConfig 
though I have put /dist/jedit2/jEdit/jars/commons-net-1.4.0.jar 
in the build.

I am sure you all know and love the setup you have, and I am 
sure you are all pretty proud of your in-depth knowledge of Ant, 
but to me there is just an enormous barrier to entry. 

On a maven project two lines cut'n'pasted off the website and 
you are coding. 

Maven is a build system, Ant is a programming language: 
lose Ant. 
</rant>

Sorry for the above, but could someone please point me to the 
zero config option?

Surely the build should just work from checkout?

cheers
tim