[josm-dev] [patch] Build process: Ant does not find svn executable

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Stephan wrote:
>> I've created a patch for #1735
>> http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/1735
>
> Can we not just drop the call to SVN in the build script, rather than
> adding a bunch of libraries? All the hassle just to get a revision
> number into a Manifest file that nobody is interested in - I'm sure
> there must be an easier way?

Well, I do not like this as well. This is only necessary for the SVN build 
and this also works fine without. So when svn is not available, then ant 
may ignore this part. It also works without.

BTW I also do not think that the build environment must support every 
system. :-)

Ciao
-- 
http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available)