That's precisely the sort of scenario I had in mind. - George
Don Brown wrote: > The one case I wouldn't mind seeing an Ant build is in the > source distribution. > Many times, I'm downloading source distros, and have to > make some change, but > I'm on a network where I don't have connectivity to the > outside world. If we > could make a source distro that was completely > self-contained, complete with an > Ant build, I'd be fine with that. > > Don > > Eric Molitor wrote: > > It realy comes down to managing the dependencies. I could forsee > > someone building an ant build that ran against the compiled > code and > > dependencies. (Similar to Atlassians build system with > JIRA.) However > > I personally dont think its appropriate to be part of the > project. (At > > least not as a source level) > > > > As someone whom fought to keep ant (and even managed to > supply a few > > patches to fix the unit tests and the build at the begining > of SAF2) > > my feeling is that managing ant, ivy, and maven just isn't > worth the > > effort. Any developer whom needs to patch the source is going to be > > able to handle maven. > > > > Just my .02. > > > > Cheers, > > Eric > > > > On 7/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Don Brown proposed: > >> > I'd like to remove the Ant build from Struts 2. I don't > think it > >> > has worked for a little while and the new Maven 2 layout > >> > discourages it for any complex builds. Unless someone seriously > >> > wants to put the effort into keeping it up, I think it should be > >> > removed. > >> > >> From the peanut gallery, I would like to see a minimal Ant > build kept > >> so that users would be able to download the Struts 2 > source, patch it > >> for their needs, and build a working jar file. I think > that Ant is > >> much more commonly used than Maven 2, that it's valuable > for users to > >> be able to try small changes to suit their needs, and that > requiring > >> Maven 2 significantly raises the work required to do so. > >> > >> Perhaps I am wrong, and either maintaining such a minimal > Ant build > >> is prohibitively expensive or installing and learning Maven 2 is > >> trivially easy. > >> > >> - George --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
