+1 and my vote counts! Speaking from personal experience I have wanted to move to a new build tool for a while. While most of you will pay though the nose for the latest M$ Vista, I run on unix machine. The use of shell scripts for build purposes is not a good xplatform solution.
Just from a quick glance Maven seems to make somewhat time consuming tasks in Ant easy. Lets do this. Nathan On 2/14/07, Brandon Goodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The broader purpose of this is not just to see if we can get jars into maven but rather to see if maven can simplify our build/release process. If you have a one liner then that is great. I'd love to see it. Brandon On 2/14/07, Slava Imeshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I seriously doubt that this would require switching to Maven > build. > > I cannot speak for a global catalog, but adding an item built > with Ant to a local Maven repository is a one-liner. > > Regards, > > Slava Imeshev > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <dev@ibatis.apache.org>; < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:09 AM > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Support for Maven (impacts Java version only) > > > > Yes - I should have asked that question with more subtlety. I guess > the > > bottom line is that it is *possible* to get the jars to the repository > > without doing a maven build, but doing a maven build makes it much > easier to > > publish to the repository. And our history shows that we are unlikely > to > > get the jars to the repository with the build process we are using > now. > > Right? > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > On 2/14/07, Larry Meadors <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > IMO, that is like "Can we clean a toilet with a toothbrush?" > > > > > > Yes, we can, but who wants to offer up their toothbrush? Not me! :-) > > > > > > The question to me is: > > > > > > "Can we get the iBATIS jars to the maven repository without doing a > > > maven build, and is it the right way to do it?" > > > > > > Yes we can, but no it's not. > > > > > > Larry > > > > > > > > > On 2/14/07, Brandon Goodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "Can we get the iBATIS jars to the maven repository without doing > a > > > maven > > > > build?" > > > > > > > > Yes > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2/14/07, Jeff Butler < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > In my own little perfect world, I'm -1. The iBATIS ant build is > so > > > simple > > > > now - I hate to see it mucked up just to supply the Maven meta-bs > as > > > Clinton > > > > so eloquently put it. > > > > > > > > > > However, I would like to see the iBATIS jars in the Maven > repository - > > > if > > > > for no other reason than to help those who can't figure out how to > set a > > > > classpath without a tool. If a maven build makes that possible > then I > > > guess > > > > I'd be +2, but reluctantly. > > > > > > > > > > I think that supporting both Ant and Maven is problematical - > seems > > > like > > > > we should just pick one for simplicity going forward. > > > > > > > > > > So I guess I can't give a single vote. Can someone definitively > > > answer > > > > this question: Can we get the iBATIS jars to the maven repository > > > without > > > > doing a maven build? That's the key point for me. > > > > > > > > > > Jeff Butler > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2/14/07, Clinton Begin < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > It strikes me that there was enough discussion around the > Maven > > > build > > > > > > to warrant an official vote for Maven support. > > > > > > > > > > > > +2 => Replace our Ant build entirely with a Maven build. > > > > > > > > > > > > +1 => Support Maven by including a Maven build alongside our > Ant > > > build. > > > > > > > > > > > > 0 => Don't care or I don't know enough about Maven to decide. > > > > > > > > > > > > -1 => Do not support maven. > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Clinton > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
