[Yanel-dev] Contradicting statements re compile attribute

[Guillaume Déflache]

Michael Wechner schrieb:
> Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
>>
>> Thanks for the corrections, however I just cannot think of cases where 
>> one would not want to compile a resource-type: they are Java 
>> "modules"/building blocks so to speak, so it's always all about 
>> compiling, isn't it?
> 
> The reason this was introduced initially was to speed-up the overall 
> build-process, which means one could set compile to false such that only 
> certain resources would be compiled.
> 
> At some later stage we introduced "build -f ..." in order to compile 
> individual resources and hence the above feature seems to be obsolete, 
> but at least the documentation is fine again ;-)

Sure.


> I think we could change this at some point (or does anyone have a good 
> reason to keep the compile attribute?), but I don't think it has a very 
> high prio right now compared with other tasks.
> 
> WDYT?

I fully agree! :) If no one steps up maybe we should either add a "TODO 
REMOVEME:" comment somewhere (or open a P3 enhancement if preferred).