No, maven isn't mandated. I'd be happy if we reverted back to ant as Eclipse and ant is also what I use, and the only thing maven ever did for me to was to make everything more complicated and slow.
For better or worse, it appears most of us old-time velocity users who would be motivated to contribute appear to prefer ant. I will add investigating what would be required to reinstate the old ant build for the 1.x branch to my list. I suspect it's mostly adapting to the new new project layout, but my maven skills are minimal. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Jacob Champlin <jac...@rentec.com> wrote: > > > On 05/28/2015 03:00 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> >> Jacob, >> >> On 5/28/15 9:13 AM, Jacob Champlin wrote: >>> >>> So building 2.0 has not gone well. There are no valid instructions >>> online, eventually I figured out: >>> >>> $ svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/velocity/engine/trunk >>> velocity-master >>> $ cd velocity-master >>> $ mvn >>> >>> However, almost all the velocity-core test cases fail, which does not >>> inspire confidence. >> >> >> I must admit that I stopped doing anything on Velocity/Tools after trunk >> went to using Maven. I can't figure out how to build it in Eclipse, so >> it's currently dead to me :( >> >> Granted, that's my own failure, but given that Velocity 2.0 developed >> seemed to have stalled long ago, it seemed like sticking with Velocity >> 1.7 wasn't a big problem. >> >> -chris >> > > Chris, > > Kind of off topic but ya I am no Maven fan. Dependency hell does exist, but > I have never thought maven was the answer. Give me > a plain old ant script any day. Does ASF require its projects to use it? > > > -Jacob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@velocity.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@velocity.apache.org
