Hi Xavier, Thanks for your feedback !
2013/4/15 Xavier Hanin <xavier.ha...@gmail.com> > > I've been playing a little bit with easyant 0.9 this wek-end, and I have > some feedback: > - I have some issues with the multi module example: > - if I run "easyant verify" at the root I get an error: "The <classpath> > for <junit> must include junit.jar if not in Ant's own classpath" > - if I run "easyant publish-local" I get another error: "bad revision > found in ivy file (Revision: 0.2-local-20130415094618). Use forcedeliver or > update" > Good catch i'll fix this now > > - from a documentation point of view, I have not found the documentation of > plugins. Having links from the plugins and standard build types pages would > be really nice. To change the compiler source and target version I had to > check the source files. > > > - the source files of plugins are pretty easy to read and understand, I > think providing links to them or documentation on where to find them would > be useful for people used to plain ant (maybe I just missed this part of > the doc, I didn't read everything). > Plugin documentation is not online yet. We didn't took time to find how to publish them as we may have differences in future plugin releases. We already have a way to generate plugin documentation. Adding links to plugin sources could be a good too. > - I've written a small tool to convert basic (very basic I mean) pom files > to module.ivy, and the result is interesting: on a bunch of modules, not > only the build run perfectly well (it's really nice to use the same > conventions), but also it's slightly faster: on a 22 multi module build, a > "easyant package" take 19s against 23s for "mvn -DskipTests=true install" > Nice to hear that it's easy to move from a standard maven build with multimodules to easyant. Will you share your tool to convert pom files to module.ivy ? > > To conclude there's room for improvement, but you've done a very good work > especially on the maven compatibility side, which is great for people > having a maven build. > I plan to continue improving support for maven users. In early days of easyant we wrote a plugin to emulate maven publication (generating a pom and related metadatas) [1] . I saw ivy improvements on makepom task [2] and i believe we have work to do on both project to make life easier for maven users to reuse publicated artifacts by ivy/easyant. > For the bugs and documentation improvements, I know I could contrbute > myself, but I have to admit I don't have enough time to dedicate. > No problem :) [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/easyant/plugins/trunk/maven-publication/ [2] http://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/trunk/use/makepom.html -- Jean Louis Boudart Independent consultant Apache EasyAnt commiter http://incubator.apache.org/easyant/
