Hi Talat Don't you remember https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1371? ;-)
Julien On 15 July 2014 11:50, Talat Uyarer <ta...@uyarer.com> wrote: > Hi Julien, > > [+1] We can remove pom.xml > > I wonder Why don't we switch our dependency management ivy+ant to maven ? > Most of IDEs works very good with maven. > > Talat > > > 2014-07-15 13:36 GMT+03:00 Julien Nioche <lists.digitalpeb...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, >> >> One of the frequent issues on the mailing list / JIRA is that users can >> be led to think that Nutch is built with Maven as they can see what looks >> like a perfectly valid pom.xml at the root of the project. It becomes >> clearer when reading the WIKI or FAQ that ANT should be used instead but it >> isn't an unreasonnable assumption, is it? >> >> As we know this pom.xml is generated automatically when we publish the >> Maven artefacts with the deploy task i.e. it is never done by end users and >> only when we release a new version. This pom.xml is generated from a >> template file in the ivy dir and uses the ivy dependencies. >> >> This pom.xml file cannot be used to build Nutch core nor the plugins but >> was used by Eclipse users to easily import the project and get the >> dependencies, which can be done very neatly with the 'ant eclipse' task or >> by using the IvyDE plugin for Eclipse. Moreover there is no guarantee that >> it is in sync with the content of the Ivy deps. >> >> I suggest that we remove the pom.xml file from the source (and the >> releases) to get rid of this source of confusion. Apart from the solutions >> I just mentioned to get the dependencies in Eclipse etc... there is always >> the option of calling 'ant deploy' to generate a fresh new pom.xml if you >> really need one. >> >> Can we please have your views on this? >> >> [+1] yes >> [-1] no, here is why... >> [0] don't mind >> >> Thanks >> >> Julien >> >> -- >> >> Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering >> >> http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ >> http://www.digitalpebble.com >> http://twitter.com/digitalpebble >> > > > > -- > Talat UYARER > Websitesi: http://talat.uyarer.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/talatuyarer > Linkedin: http://tr.linkedin.com/pub/talat-uyarer/10/142/304 > -- Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ http://www.digitalpebble.com http://twitter.com/digitalpebble
