[Laszlo-dev] FWIW: svg visualization of trunk build.xml

[Benjamin Shine]

I found this little tool, ant2svg, that creates graph-viz of our ant  
files.
http://www.spiritedsw.com/ant2svg/

I ran it on the OpenLaszlo nightly build file, our lfc build file,  
our schema build file, our server (compiler) build file, and (eek)  
our main build file.
http://sbshine.net/laszlo/ant-build-viz/ant-build-viz.zip

ant2svg stops naming targets after about the first page's worth, so  
trunk.svg doesn't have target names for the bottom half of the  
image. ...but it's pretty clear that our main build.xml is a huge  
mess, and that the server's build.xml is in decent shape,

The take away is just: ye gods our builds are complicated, especially  
the root build.

"It's my weekend and I'll maven if I want to"?

Also please note that it is before 8 am pacific and I have done  
actual work on a Saturday. Not the work I *meant* to do, though:  
http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-2152, "ant make" should not  
fail if webapp is not deployed.

benjamin shine
software engineer
ben at laszlosystems.com