Hello, 2011/12/18 jean-frederic clere <jfcl...@gmail.com>: > On 12/17/2011 07:55 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> >> Personally, I am of the view "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". If there >> was something we would gain by switching to Maven then I'd be interested >> but given we have an established build process with Ant that a number of >> committers are familiar with and that I'm not aware of any benefits of >> moving to Maven then I don't see any compelling reason to switch. > > > Using Maven would allow us to remove build.properties.default and download > task that information would go in pom.xml. We can cut Tomcat in module more > easily. > The other thing is that Maven seems a more active project that Ant so we new > feature easy and most IDE allow to import Maven project in IDE workspace. > > The problem of Maven is that we have to change the structure of our > repository I think that the only problem. I have started something here [1] which doesn't change the structure. in tc7, just try mvn clean install -f maven/pom.xml (maven artifacts will be installed)
BTW it's only a workaround to not change the structure and certainly doesn't fix any issue with ide (and btw there are a lot things to fix in this test) I have started that but not continuing effort due to lack of interest. It was really a start to produce maven artifacts needed by maven plugin and was more easy to test with SNAPSHOTs build for me. The question regarding changing build system is complicated: as you tomcat core devs prefers ant why moving ? At least for introducing more modularity, why rebuilding everything every time ( what is the need to always rebuild jdbc pool module whereas nothing has changed: this module could have an independent release cycle as it's a library which can be used outside of tomcat container). As the embed api in 7 is pretty cool and available in maven repositories, I'm sure more and more maven users will use it. So using maven could be gain here, as hackers/users will probably want to try provide patch (fixes or new feature) and without a maven build they probably won't do it... BTW if you decide to do/change something, as I have a bit of maven knowledge, let me know if I can help. > > Cheers > > Jean-Frederic > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > -- Olivier Lamy Talend: http://coders.talend.com http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk/maven/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
