On Jan 13, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Bob Kerns <[email protected]> wrote: >> Personally, I always find maven itself to be such a barrier. I'm willing to >> take it as a given, though, given its widespread adoption and use with >> Hadoop. I presume this also helps with integration with the Apache build >> and distribution environment? > > I would really, really highly recommend sticking with Maven. There's a bit > of an upfront setup (which I can totally help with) but the benefits are vast > when it comes to publishing artifacts/interacting with other repos. + 1. The initial overhead of setting up maven is high, but it has good payoff, especially dealing with legal requirements for dependencies and release process. I can also help out as needed. Here is an example release process based on maven [1]. Cheers, Suresh [1] - http://airavata.apache.org/development/release-management.html
