My intent at this point is not to replace anything, just to add the ability to build with buck. Maintaining multiple build systems is a pain for sure, but I'd wager the majority of the burden of buck maintenance would fall on Facebook since we're the primary users of it to build zookeeper at this point.
________________________________ From: Michael Han <h...@cloudera.com> Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 3:02:51 PM To: dev@zookeeper.apache.org Subject: Re: Ever considered using buck to build? Is this proposal intended to use BUCK to replace ant someday, or just add BUCK as an alternative build system? I thought it's not replacing ant, but I want double check, because choosing a build system vs support multiple build system are different topics. On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Patrick White <pwh...@fb.com> wrote: > My bad, I'll clarify. > > > Internally, we build and test with buck, but we don't worry about the > bin,conf,share,etc folders. So it's a thing that is possible (and I'll > certainly do it if there's interest) we just haven't put effort behind it > because... well we don't use it that way. > > re: jenkins. uhhhh... I'll have to get back to you on that one. (never > used it, but I'll go download it and see what shakes loose) > > ________________________________ > From: Camille Fournier <cami...@apache.org> > Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 2:11:15 PM > To: dev@zookeeper.apache.org > Subject: Re: Ever considered using buck to build? > > Did you... Just list as a con that actually it currently won't work? > > Does it work on Jenkins? > > On May 5, 2017 4:51 PM, "Patrick White" <pwh...@fb.com> wrote: > > > Howdy! I'm Patrick from the core systems team at Facebook, and I work on > > ZooKeeper and ZooKeeper accessories all day long. > > > > Proposal: I want to add BUCK files to the zookeeper source tree. > > > > > > Hear me out: > > > > TL; DR - I want to hear everyone's thoughts and opinions on the matter. > > > > > > At Facebook, we use buck (buckbuild.com) to build everything. Buck turns > > out to be a really nice build system. It's easy to set up and super > fast. I > > love buck. > > > > > > Ben put together some nice BUCK files that we use internally to build > > zookeeper and zkcli. Since we're already working to sync back with > > upstream, we'd love to get them in. > > > > > > Pros: > > > > Buck files are a lot easier to work with than maven, ant, or anything > else > > > > Buck's fast > > > > These files do absolutely nothing for or against people who want to use > > maven or ant > > > > 'java_binary' generates a single executable file containing all the jars > > > > > > Cons: > > > > Not one of the "conventional" java build systems > > > > BUCK files laying around are just trash for people not interested in them > > > > Doesn't currently generate the typical layout of bin, conf, share, etc. > > > > - *currently*, it could probably be done > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Patrick > > > > > -- Cheers Michael.
