Ant invocation in debian/rules per pkg-java guidelines

[Barry Hawkins]

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Team,
~    The guidelines[0] for co-maintaining Java packages suggest the
following when Ant is a part of a project's build process:

'If you are using Ant you can put ant.properties in the debian
directory, call Ant with "-propertyfile path/to/debian/ant.properties"
and define build.compiler, compile.debug and compile.optimize there.'

~    However, in browsing several of the other projects in the pkg-java
repository, I haven't seen many people using this approach.  A number of
them seem to be setting variables directly in debian/rules.  Is the
ant.properties recommendation still a current preferred convention, or
has that been surpassed by an alternative approach?

[0] - http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html

Regards,
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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.alltc.com
weblog: www.yepthatsme.com

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