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Let the fluorination commence
- From: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>
- To: rhug-rhats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:42:41 +0000
- Subject: Let the fluorination commence
Ok, fluorine as it stands is good enough for every package in the
Tomcat stack with the possible exception of Tomcat itself, so I'm
going to start fluorinating the Naoko packages. The advantages of
this will be:
* Instead of being defined in x-thousand lines of Makefile.am and
configure.in, each package is defined in x-tens-of-lines of
fluorine.xml. For example:
Package Complexity Makefile.am + fluorine.xml
(relative) configure.in (lines)
(lines)
commons-logging dead simple 189 19
jakarta-ant moderatly complex 2143 75 (approx)
This simplicity makes things like upgrading to new versions,
rearranging jarfile contents, etc, a breeze.
* It _should_ fix every builddir != srcdir bug (and I found loads of
them whilst writing it), every stupid relative path and broken sed
bug, and every single bug where jarfiles and solibs have
inconsistent contents.
* Header generation is much more efficient, and jarfile contents are
defined exactly (previously they were somewhat haphazard).
Fluorine itself is a fairly small (<1000 lines) and straightforward
piece of code and it should be fairly easy to understand and extend if
necessary.
Gary
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