Refactoring JavaFX Builds & Sources (original) (raw)

Sven Reimers sven.reimers at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 06:45:23 PDT 2012

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com> wrote:

Another point: I see that the ultimate goal is to be able to build from an IDE, and this is fine. However, I think that building from command line should still be supported and not require any more than it requires now ... I would go farther than that and state: Building from the IDE is a very nice developer convenience.

Well, if you want participation from the community easy setup for hacking and building sources is more than just a convenience...

Building from the command line is the primary way the product is built and must be supported for developer builds.

+1, a must have for CI.

-Sven

-- Kevin

Anthony Petrov wrote: On 10/18/2012 11:16 PM, Richard Bair wrote:

In addition to code generation, we also build a ton of native code (gstreamer, webkit, prism, fonts, glass, image loading). So that has to fit into the build system. Building native code is SLOW, so being able to avoid it for "normal" developers, and being able to avoid native builds when nothing changed in the native code, is important. Building native code may be slow in general, but building e.g. Glass takes under a minute. Of course I agree that if code hasn't changed, it shouldn't be re-built. One more point: presently we can clone the repository and build just glass itself (which is very fast as I mentioned above). This is useful for quick testing, and also we have a Glass-only demo app that doesn't depend on FX, so we can work on Glass w/o even building the whole FX right now. Can we make the new build system support this kind of partial builds (at least for Glass)? Another point: I see that the ultimate goal is to be able to build from an IDE, and this is fine. However, I think that building from command line should still be supported and not require any more than it requires now (which is basically just cd to-my-repo && ant). -- best regards, Anthony

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