On 7/17/2018 3:35 AM, Diego Ceccarelli (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) wrote:
Thanks Dawid, I agree it is a massive job, I was curious to know if there is interest and we can put together a group of people interested in doing the job.
If that work gives us a build system that is easier for everyone to understand and change, it would be worth pursuing. If it doesn't make things easier, then I don't think we should change it. Dependency management is only a small part of what the build system does.
I have no particular attachment to ant/ivy. The current build system does work, and it would be important that any new build system be tortured to make sure it's more robustthan the ant/ivy build.
It would indeed be a big job. If you tackle it, I would suggest setting it up so it exists in parallel with the ant build system for at least all of 8.x. In the interests of stability, I don't think the work should affect branch_7x.
I really think that any significant work on the build system, whether we switch systems or not, should involve some detailed design and howto documentation, probably on the project wikis.
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