Re: [Webmacro-devel] Gump build issue...

[Brian G. <br...@qu...>]

>I'm not wanting to make WM an island.  But I do want to minimize noise and 
>additional responsibility.  Especially that which comes from the group 
>that told us to "fuck off" a long time ago.

Ancient history.

>Seriously, how many people on this list use Gump?  If SourceForge had some 
>automated build system that the majority of SF projects were using, sure, 
>that'd be great.  But Gump?  Please.

Gump is gaining acceptance, because it fills a need -- the ability to say 
"this project depends on Xerces/WebMacro/pdfBox/whatever" and the build 
process does the right thing.  Checking JARs for project X into the CVS of 
project Y is a pretty bad way to manage dependencies.  Having project Y 
export "I need X" is better -- and Gump deals with that, by having a 
database of projects and their associated download info.  I think Gump 
compatibility is worthwhile.

I think a better response would have been "Thanks for the heads up, but we 
don't have time to figure out how to gumpify WM -- can you tell us what we 
need to do, or can we help you learn to build WM?"



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