On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Jean-Louis Boudart < jeanlouis.boud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Xavier, > > Thanks for your feedback ! > [...] > > > > - 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. > Yes, it would really be nice, and sources are pretty much self explanatory, so it could be enough to start. Maybe only a link to the plugins repo to browse the source online could be a good start. > > > > - 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 ? > Yes, I will, but it's very basic. It's part of another project I'm working on, I'll keep you posted when I release it in open source. Xavier -- Xavier Hanin - 4SH France - http://www.4sh.fr/ BordeauxJUG creator - http://www.bordeauxjug.org/ Apache Ivy Creator - http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
