I know some projects that do the same, continue to shift some of the compilation to ant within maven, that way you generally get better tooling and CI support and the more complex stuff is still done in Ant. Might be an avenue worth pursuing in the not too distant future.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joshua builds with Ant. Justification for this right now is well versed, > there are a number of more complex steps e.g. Compiling c++ GIZA code and > also the thrax codebase also needs to be install IIRC. > I took a look at porting the build to Maven literally 2 or 3 weeks ago but > right now it seems like a bit of investment in time. > If anyone fancies doing this however, last time I spoke to Matt he was game > for porting the build to Maven. > > > On Monday, March 14, 2016, Tommaso Teofili <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I also prefer Maven but I'm not against Ant if that proves to be working > > already (let's keep it as simple as possible for the start), for sure I > > would like to avoid having both as that is a pain to maintain (seen > already > > how annoying it is in Apache Lucene/Solr). > > > > Regards, > > Tommaso > > > > Il giorno lun 14 mar 2016 alle ore 14:23 Tom Barber < > > t...@analytical-labs.com <javascript:;>> > > ha scritto: > > > > > Oh please let it be maven! :) > > > > > > -------------- > > > > > > Director Meteorite.bi - Saiku Analytics Founder > > > Tel: +44(0)5603641316 > > > > > > (Thanks to the Saiku community we reached our Kickstart > > > < > > > > > > http://kickstarter.com/projects/2117053714/saiku-reporting-interactive-report-designer/ > > > > > > > goal, but you can always help by sponsoring the project > > > <http://www.meteorite.bi/products/saiku/sponsorship>) > > > > > > On 14 March 2016 at 12:19, Tommaso Teofili <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com > > <javascript:;>> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I am having a look at the Joshua build and was wondering which tool > we > > > want > > > > to support: Ant or Maven? > > > > AFAICS from the README we should be using Ant for compiling, however > I > > > also > > > > see a pom.xml and hence I'm a bit confused (BTW the Maven build fails > > > with > > > > compilation errors for me). > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Tommaso > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > *Lewis* >
