Personally, I'd not be happy if we added a parallel build system. Given that so much Ant code is necessary to handle some details shows how inflexible Maven is. I haven't checked how much Ant code is duplicated between the root-level build.xml and the files in the "maven" subdirectory. IMO, this would be a maintenance head-ache since the two always have to be kept in sync. If build.xml would be split into re-usable sub-file (Ant is quite flexible), some duplication could be avoided maybe. But that would still impose some level of redundancy. At any rate, you probably can't count me in to help maintain the Maven side due to my very bad experiences with it.
Also, I'm not sure if the <symlink> task will work as expected on Windows. On 04.09.2010 12:41:14 bugzilla wrote: > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49881 > > Summary: [PATCH] add maven build support > Product: Fop > Version: 1.1dev > Platform: All > OS/Version: All > Status: NEW > Severity: enhancement > Priority: P2 > Component: general > AssignedTo: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org > ReportedBy: gl...@skynav.com > > > This patch adds support for building with maven 2.2.X or later. I have tested > it with the current version (2.2.1) on a JDK 1.6 platform. > > There are no direct dependencies on JDK 1.4 or 1.5 features, but I have not > verified yet. > > The patch creates a new top-level directory 'maven' in the FOP trunk > directory. > See the file README-MAVEN.txt there for configuration and usage information. > > Once downloaded to your home directory, this patch may be applied as follows: > > cd ${FOP}/trunk > gzcat ~/patch-maven-build.diff.gz | patch -p0 > svn add maven > > Note that only the core fop.jar artifact is built at this time. In particular, > the fop-transcoder and fop-sandbox jar artifacts are not yet built. > > This patch has been verified against repository version 992575. > > Regards, > Glenn > > -- > Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are the assignee for the bug. Jeremias Maerki