I thought we were moving to Maven at some point. Did that get sidelined? -Jordan
> On May 5, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Michael Han <h...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > 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.
