On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Well, you have always claimed that as de jure, I think defacto is that >> it's part of the release. And the defacto is to follow the 'release to >> do' best as makes sense (I'm not sure the Solr release to do wiki always >> makes much sense). I've been waiting for the day that you release Lucene >> and drop all consideration for Maven as you have said you would likely >> do - but I think most of us feel it's pretty much on the list and this >> general agreement will free us of our conscious. I was ready to follow >> your coat tails to freedom, but this way lets me off easier I think. >> > > Just my opinion: (personally i do not use maven, nor understand it). > If maven support is beneficial to bringing more devs to lucene, we should > consider what we can do. > But at the same time, perhaps Makefiles would bring more devs, too. > My problem with releasing with maven is that i could not honestly even +1 my > own release artifacts, because i don't know what the hell is going on with > the maven artifacts. > There has to be a way to let the "maven experts" take care of this stuff > somehow, if its really going to be beneficial.
As a maven user (not an expert by any means), the maven stuff in 3.x/trunk is actually pretty good. Running: ant generate-maven-artifacts -Dmaven.dist.dir=maven -Dversion=4.0.rxxx makes a folder (maven) with everything it needs. This is *very* easy for maven apps to test against. What are the deploy steps that we are talking about dropping/changing? - - - - As an aside, I still think it is worth changing our dev builds from "-dev.jar" to "-SNAPSHOT.jar" so that the daily builds are automatically valid SNAPSHOT builds that are easy for maven/ivy users to work with. (LUCENE-2493) As is, maven users have to checkout and build with a special version to test/use a dev build -- since this is more work then many people want to deal with, we find problems with the maven pom files *after* the official release. ryan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
