[android-developers] Re: "Proguard, Android, and the Licensing Server", or...

It is not just you. I was pretty disappointed when I read that post,
too. I did get a kick out of seeing what a menacing appearance Dan has
with his new beard and moustache, though;)

I am amazed that Google seems to think it is acceptable to force the
user to maintain two different build systems -- one for Eclipse and
one for the recommended independent installation of Ant -- and also
maintain a text file with a list of classes not to obfuscate. It is
too obvious that this is a task ADT should be doing.

But rather than run for the hills, we should pepper Google with
uncomplimentary speculations concerning their motives for this "turd
layering" until they 'fess up and give us a release date for a version
of ADT that will allow us to include Proguard in an Eclipse build
WITHOUT these problems.

On Sep 22, 9:59 pm, JP <joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just read the latest Android Developer blog post.http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/proguard-android-and-l...
> Quite the beast. And Proguard cannot even be used with confidence
> ("it's still possible that in edge cases you'll end up seeing
> something like a ClassNotFoundException").
>
> Is it just me getting irritated where this seems to be going?
> In my more active days developing, pretty graphic slang was applies to
> efforts like this: "Turd layering". Meaning: More dependencies, more
> procedure, more sources of error, and it doesn't even work "right". In
> of itself, adding innocent looking steps to a release procedure (for
> some relatively obscure benefit) might be marginally worthwhile, but
> in the bigger picture, releasing an app increasingly becomes a burden.
> Dare you miss a step. Or try to teach somebody else how to go through
> a release and verify it. Or you want to go and rebuild a development
> environment. Or lose the ominous reference file (mapping.txt)...
>
> Anybody care to disagree and convince me this all nice and dandy and
> we don't have to literally run for the hills?

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