On 01/05/11 00:56, Thomas Sachau wrote: > Am 30.04.2011 22:31, schrieb freenet.10.technomation at recursor.net: >> Also, the archives being >> used in Freenet are probably built using Maven. > > How do you get to this conclusion? >> >> Another big plus with reorging the build, apart from making the structure >> easier to grok, simpler and more consistent to build (3K XML build file vs. >>> 20K XML build file, *contrib *would be trivial too), is that newbies can >> put their arms around it and start contributing quicker and with more >> confidence; There will be more eyes on the code, find and weeding out the >> historic flaws, providing more velocity to the project. > > I cannot follow, how a build system results in more eyes watching the code or > doing other things. > > And maven-based build-system are horrible to package, on gentoo side, we > usually create a build.xml > for ant and build that way since maven is way more complex. So from my point > of view as packager, i > am completly against a move to a more complex build system, while the current > one works fine. >
it does not "work fine". again, arguments that omit the cost of maintenance are invalid. debian handles maven packages by haven a system-wide maven repo. perhaps gentoo could take a leaf out of their book. X -- GPG: 4096R/5FBBDBCE
