On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:29:15 -0700, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a personal opinion only, subject to the views of the other > committers, but I've gone from +0 to -0 on switching to Maven.
I am also -0 at this point. > The > one really important value add that I see, downloading dependencies > automatically, can be crafted into an Ant script quite easily Indeed. I intend to add this to the Struts build soon. > -- see, > for example, the build.xml file you get from running "maven ant" -- > and customizing Maven build processes reminds me too much of the > things I don't like about aspect oriented programming ... I can't look > at the code and just see what's going to happen :-). This also one of my biggest gripes - not knowing where to look when something goes wrong (which seems all to often for me). > That being said, we still have some work to do to make our build > process both simpler and separable (for multiple sub-projects). But > I'd prefer to do it based on Ant scripts that are independently > managed for each sub-project. +1 Also, the 'import' and 'macro' tasks introduced in recent versions of Ant should help with this. > I won't stand in the way of a migration to Maven if the other > developers want to build and maintain the system ... but I'm > personally going to generate build.xml files for the subprojects for > my own personal use, and I'm gonna be unhappy if that doesn't work > because of dramatically customized Maven builds. Ditto. -- Martin Cooper > > Crag > > > > > On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 09:57:55 +0800, Nathan Coast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > First question, am I right in assuming struts is migrating to maven as > > the build tool? > > > > A little while ago we announced a beta of a maven plug-in to assemble > > web-apps from multiple struts-module projects. > > > > http://www.codeczar.com/beta/maven-struts-module-plugin/ > > > > For this release we migrated the struts example web-app to a new > > structure: http://www.codeczar.com/beta/struts-examples/structure.html > > > > We had some positive feedback on the plug-in, but none from the struts > > committers. This plug-in may not be appropriate for every web-app but > > we feel that it provides benefits for complex multi-module web-apps. > > http://www.codeczar.com/beta/maven-struts-module-plugin/benefits.html > > > > As part of the migration to maven we'd like to see the examples web-app > > built by the struts module plug-in. Is this likely? If not, any ideas > > how we should improve the plug-in? We'd like to develop something that > > is of real benefit to the community. > > > > cheers > > Nathan > > > > -- > > Nathan Coast > > Managing Director > > codeczar ltd > > mobile: (852) 9049 5581 > > email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > web: http://www.codeczar.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
