Re: [Panopticode-users] Getting started, and a couple notes

[Julias S. <ju...@sh...>]

On May 18, 2007, at 5:41 AM, Eric Pugh wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Julias, Chris, I'm finally getting to look at what you'all demoed at
> CITcon.

Thanks Eric!

> A couple notes as I get started:
>
> 1) Link to docs from homepage broken...  http://www.panopticode.org/
> documentation.html is the link

How embarrassing.  That one is fixed now.

> 2) Running "ant metrics" was great, however things went pear shaped
> on the import of jdepend.  Not sure if I actually need to put jdepend
> in my ant/lib directory?  Checked SVN trunk, it doesn't look like it
> is explicitly imported there either.   I think things like this are
> what would hinder adoption by the non Ant kung foo folks...  They are
> probably looking to Panopticode to simplify/shield them from the
> build scripting process!

You've nailed the solution exactly.  Tasks that are partially  
distributed with Ant must have their corresponding project jars added  
to Ant's own classpath.  This is typically done by moving them to  
your $ANT_HOME/lib.  Panopticode echos a message warning of this when  
one of those tasks runs, but it is easy to miss.  I'd be interested  
in any ideas you have for making this more obvious or working around  
it.  I was talking to another ThoughtWorker, Tim Brown, yesterday and  
he thought he might have an elegant solution.  His Ant foo is much  
stronger than mine so I have high hopes.  I'll let you know what he  
finds.

> I'll drop some more notes as this goes.   I am demoing next week some
> of our agile processes in development to a major government program
> office, so I am hoping to add in some of what Panopticode does as  
> well!

Your feedback is greatly appreciated.  I'll send you my cell number  
in another email.  Feel free to call me if there is anything I can do  
to help.

Cheers,

Julias
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