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Chat with Terence today:

3:15 PM Terence: hello James

  do you have a minute?

3:17 PM me: Sure, how are things going

3:18 PM Terence: Well, I was just trying to build Ant successfully in Eclipse, and I tracked down all the external libraries

3:19 PM but there are still problems

  like I have a lot of classes called A.java

  a number of them

  and they are all conflicting

  Have you tried fiddling around using Eclipse of Netbeans or something yet?

3:20 PM me: Yeah, I have not yet been able to build successfully in eclipse.. look at my blog for how to build the project from the source.

 Terence: okay

 me: I used the provided build script

3:21 PM Terence: I tried that but that didn't work either. Maybe with all the libraries that I have now, I can get that to work

  And the Prof wants us to move faster

  with the Midterm and the Coase paper and my other subjects, life is kinda fast right now

3:22 PM me: I know the feeling

3:23 PM Perhaps there is something on the discussion board about getting this built under Eclipse

  I think there is a discussion board

  I have not seen it yet

3:24 PM Terence: perhaps. I guess we have to build it completely each time, even though we're only going to work on a small bug right now?

  just to make sure that it doesn't break anything else?

3:25 PM me: I'm not sure

  I think most of the folders have test scripts with common names causing the conflicts.

 Terence: because most of these errors are in the test cases, and I'm sure that I can build it if I remove them (or at least the problematic ones)

 me: I'm not sure how the build script gets around that

3:26 PM Right, probably just need to remove some source code directoris

 Terence: and Who does that? make so many classes with the same name, and then not use package identifiers to differentitate them?

3:27 PM me: It would be nice to be able to pull it into eclipse and the project to be organized enough for eclipse to make educated enough guesses to create a functioning project

3:28 PM Terence: well, I better get back to my stuff then

  thanks for the help

3:29 PM and if you locate that discussion board, do blog it

 me: I'm planning on working on that a bit more this weekend

  I will

 Terence: thanks

  have a nice day

  bye

 me: Bye