Re: [Hecl-devel] Thinking loud...

[David W. <dav...@gm...>]

> lib.hcl
> David wrote something about adding such a file into the .jar. I find it
> quite a good idea, but I'd take it a step further. Have a look at
> heclbuilder if it is possible to add multiple files. In such way large
> applications could be broken down into smaller scripts (might be
> important on phones with memory restraints) and files with for instance
> data could be added.

You'd probably want to separate that into two pieces:

* A way to add multiple scripts, through HeclBuilder and JarHack.

* Hecl commands to load them up, so that you let the programmer do it
rather than build it in statically.

> But maybe the most important task right now is to make the build system
> work as good as possible with the present different systems.

> Define a working development setup, that is, exactly what versions of
> java, ant, antenna, OS etc are used to successfully compile the whole
> package. I suspect that it means the setup that David is using.

Hecl doesn't have too many external dependencies:

* ant
* WTK
* Java

Pretty much everything else is shipped with Hecl, including proguard
and Antenna.  Via ant, we could try and set some minimum requirements
for the ant version and Java version.  Most of the build 'problems'
were due to the introduction of antenna 1.0, which has a different way
of dealing with symbols.  That destabilized things, and it's taken a
bit to get everything pushed back into shape, but I think we're mostly
there - or are at least to the point where no one is yelling loudly
because it's failing on his/her system:-)

> projects. They say that for instance ant is needed, but not what version.=
)
>
> Hope I don=B4t spoil your day with all this...

Quite the contrary!  Seeing other people interested in Hecl gives me
extra motivation!

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David N. Welton

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