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Karl Wright commented on CONNECTORS-92:
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Re: build preferences

Continuing to have an ant build is actually pretty important for some modes of 
delivery.  I'm specifically thinking of debian and Ubuntu packaging here.  
Maven does not work well with these packaging schemes because it's too 
all-encompassing.  We therefore need a way of doing builds locally, without 
pulling things down from a mirror.

My original thought was that we'd have multiple layers - ant  being the most 
basic, with a maven wrapper available to pull down what the ant build needed, 
and have the maven build call ant underneath.  I don't know how realistic that 
is, but it does solve all the problems if it can be done that way.


> Move from ant to maven or other build system with decent library management
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>
>                 Key: CONNECTORS-92
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-92
>             Project: Apache Connectors Framework
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Build
>            Reporter: Jettro Coenradie
>         Attachments: Screen shot 2010-08-23 at 16.31.07.png
>
>
> I am looking at the current project structure. If we want to make another 
> build tool available I think we need to change the directory structure. I 
> tried to place a suggestion in an image. Can you please have a look at it. If 
> we agree that this is a good way to go, than I will continue to work on a 
> patch. Which might be a bit hard with all these changing directories, but 
> I'll do my best to at least get an idea whether it would be working.
> So I have three questions:
> - Do you want to move to maven or put maven next to ant?
> - Do you prefer another build mechanism [ant with ivy, gradle, maven3]
> - Do you have an idea about the amount of scripts that need to be changed if 
> we change the project structure
> The image of a possible project layout (that is based on the maven standards) 
> is attached to the issue

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