Re[2]: [Jalopy-devel] [PATCH]implements indent, array initialiser

[Marco H. <dev...@hu...>]

Hello Michael,

Michael> You will have to make changes for maven so probably dont want
Michael> to go there. 
Michael> Maybe once maven gets a little more mature it would be easier.
Michael> The key to maven is that you dont really have to learn
Michael> much...just drop your code 
Michael> into the structure and it goes.

As always: you may don't have to learn much in the first place if you
can live with the way the tool works or its authors want it to work.
But if you have special needs, you may soon having a hard time to
adapt. 


Michael> Im doing some major refactoring at work, so ill have lots of
Michael> Maven nous. Ill see if its possible to make the current
Michael> structure for Jalopy fit into maven. I think it will with a
Michael> super POM and sub POM's for all the plugins.

Cool. Please keep me up to date.


Michael> Although i have to admit the current setup was very easy to
Michael> get it up and running. 

My "build system" was inspired by the NetBeans one. I like the idea to
have one central place/module to control the whole process. I need to
document the build.properties file better, but besides that everything
should be fairly easy to get up and running.


Michael> I noticed that junit was there but didnt see any tests...are
Michael> they coming or is that a pipedream. 

Well, writing unit tests is no fun and Jalopy is mainly about having
fun. But especially for the printing stuff, the lack of a test
suite sometimes drives me mad. And especially for the printing
stuff, coming up with an easy way to implement unit tests is very
complicated.

As always, all additions welcome :)


Michael> As I want things that arent there ill submit patches so if
Michael> you could keep CVS update to date, I wont have to duplicate
Michael> things you've done, and can do other things. :-D 

Well, I try. As it is, my resources are fairly limited and I have to
avoid spending too much time online. For the time being, you can
savely use the list to first tell about your ideas and I'm sure we
will find a way to avoid duplicate work ;)


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Best regards,
 Marco