On 16 October 2011 17:30, Phil Steitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Oct 16, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Adrian Cumiskey >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Personally I would favour maintaining Ant over Maven any day of the week, >>> although Maven IDE support is generally pretty good I find it so verbose >>> and unwieldy. This is probably not within scope of cutting a RC, but I'd >>> recommend buildr, its so lightweight, low maintenance and extensible, and a >>> nice way to wet your feet with ruby too. >>> >> >> Maven parent is used for all components so I think we need Maven here. >> > > Traditionally, we have allowed components to choose their own build tools. > The maven parent is there to make it easier to build using maven. It's > really up to whoever is working on the component to decide what kinds of > builds they want to support and how they want to generate RCs.
I don't think Maven can be abandoned however, without causing problems for building the site. If a component exclusively uses a build tool that is not well known, there is a danger that not many PMC members will be able to validate and vote for releases. > Phil > >> But hey... I didn't know about buildr. I looked at it now and it is >> very nice! Thanks for sending this link. >> >> Cheers >> Christian >> >> >>> Cheers, Adrian. >>> >>> On Oct 16, 2011, at 1:46 AM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Simone Tripodi >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> looks like last good build.xml commit was done by Niall in the far >>>>> 2008 - since [functor] joined the proper recently and I'd like to cut >>>>> a RC soon, I propose to drop ant support. >>>> >>>> +1 >>>> >>>>> What are plans for ant builds maintenance? Does it make sense maintain >>>>> ant builds for already released components, but omit it for new ones? >>>> >>>> Not sure why we still care on ant builds. Its just double maintenance. >>>> Another question is if we should support Maven 3 only (my preference) >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Christian >>>>> Many thanks in advance, all the best! >>>>> Simo >>>>> >>>>> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >>>>> http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ >>>>> http://twitter.com/simonetripodi >>>>> http://www.99soft.org/ >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> http://www.grobmeier.de >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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] >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
