Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
...I propose to move Cocoon to Maven. Please VOTE:
I know the vote is canceled, but maybe we can talk about the problems before looking at a solution?
+1
IMHO these are the problems of the current build system:
1) Monolithic repository makes it impossible to include libraries having non-ASF compatible licenses.
That's the big thing for me, specially as it causes a big loss of energy discussing licenses for library X or Y instead of just hosting these cool components in non-ASF repositories.
I know Real Blocks will solve this, but does anyone see Real Blocks happening in the near future?
2) Monolithic repository requires a big download before being able to do anything with Cocoon.
I might be wrong but I don't see any other issues with the current build system.
IMHO, being able to include parts of external repositories in the build (by getting them dynamically from their CVS or SVN repositories at build time) would bring most of what people are waiting for in Real Blocks.
http://incubator.apache.org/depot/
in particular
http://incubator.apache.org/depot/update/
The current SVN version gets the jars specified in the gump xml file too.
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As for our build, there is another thing that should be done to make it better, as the current xsl-based hack I had put up was needed with Ant 1.5.
Now that we have Ant 1.6, we should instead do this:
1 - make a block-build.xml file in the blocks dir that contains
a default block build file.
2 - add a build.xml file to every block with
<import file="../block-build.xml">
3 - in each block build.xml file we can add extra targets or
override the ones imported
4 - use <subant> to make the build system call all block buildfilesThis is how to set up in Ant what Maven calls the "reactor". I was waiting to see the switch to SVN to test it on a branch, but since you came up with this thread, I thought I'd share it now :-)
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