TikaAnnotator hard to build

It's hard for an outsider to figure out how to check out and build TikaAnnotator. It turns out that in addition to the TikaAnnotator directory you need to check out the entire sandbox tree, or at least SandboxDistr; and you also have to have checked out the uimaj tree; and the two need to be siblings in your filesystem, even thought they're not siblings in the subversion repository. Or something like that--I eventually gave up and just wrote my own ant build.

The problem was discussed here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/uima-dev@incubator.apache.org/msg10570.html
At the end of the thread it was suggested that instructions be posted on the web site, but this doesn't seem to have happened (at least not where I looked, which is here: http://incubator.apache.org/uima/sandbox.html ). I second the suggestion. Even better would be to make the process easier, though I have no particular suggestions about how to do that.

It looks like this might be an issue for all the sandbox annotators. TikaAnnotator just happens to be the one I tried.