I'm a Maven newbie (though I generally like it), but I agree totally. I really think that all projects should support Ant and Maven. I would hate to lose the ability to go down the Ant route whenever I want/need to. Again, I like Maven, but I generally find Ant much less problematic - probably down to my lack of experience with the tool.
Cheers, Rory ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark R. Diggory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [general] Do we need to support Ant based builds? > Again, its important that a Commons project support both ant and maven. > Use the project template directory to build new projects, maven is > required to build your sub-projects site, I recommend that new projects > use Maven's ant build.xml generation task to maintain the projects > build.xml, this build.xml contains tasks that are used by Craigs nightly > build script to generate the nightly snapshot. Legacy projects that have > their own ant build.xml files are just fine and should continue to be > maintained. > > We should use both routes. > > -Mark > > Eric Pugh wrote: > > Okay.. well, it sounds like the consensus is that Ant support is a Good > > Idea, so we'll keep it.. I'll play around with adding the Ant generation > > task to maybe our maven site goal so that we keep it up to date.. Mostly > > it's just an issue of keeping the script up to date with the Maven build.. > > Dependencies seem to get out of sync quite easily! > > > > Currently, the build is quite simple, and the maven ant plugin works fine > > for everything, so we'll keep it up to date! > > > > Thanks for all the feedback! > > > > Eric > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 11:17 AM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: [general] Do we need to support Ant based builds? > >> > >> > >>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Dion Gillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>C'mon, that one doesn't even run tests! > >> > >>8-) > >> > >>At least it has a bunch of dependencies, that's what non-trivial meant > >>in my mail. > >> > >><http://brutus.apache.org/gump/public/db-commons-sandbox/db-common > >>s-grafolia/gump_work/build_db-commons-sandbox_db-commons-grafolia.html> > >>does run unit tests. > >> > >>Hmm, in > >><http://brutus.apache.org/gump/public/excalibur/excalibur-thread-i > >>mpl/gump_work/build_excalibur_excalibur-thread-impl.html> > >>the unit tests fail to compile even though the project lists a > >>dependency on JUnit, while Grafolia (which works) does not declare > >>such a dependency. > >> > >>We really need help from people who understand Maven better than I do > >>to take the final steps. It seems we are pretty close. Want to come > >>over to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dion? > >> > >>Stefan > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Mark Diggory > Software Developer > Harvard MIT Data Center > http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
