Ah... I can see that the war fire has been set on on parallel thread :-)
On 2/16/07, Lukas Vlcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, As far as I remember, there has already been discussions about possible port of Lucene (and/or Nutch) to Maven in the past. I don't want to discourage you but I am afraid that it won't be that easy to do this port without significant effort and community support. I don't consider myself Maven expert but I think that it would be correct to break up the Lucene source to several projects (I am thinking at least of contrib content as extra projects - the same would apply to Nutch plugins - yes, and Hadoop is another candidate). Anyway, I am convinced that porting Lucene and Nutch to Maven would be a huge benefit (from my experience I can compare what it is like to over-take project without any building script, with ant script and with maven script - and maven simply wins). On the other hand, I am a bit sceptical about this move because maven is imho more then just a building script. What if it requires community to adapt different practices/approach? Would community be happy about this? I don't want anybody to take it personally but my speculation is that majority of Lucene/Nutch commiters haven't been exposed to maven yet (because if they were then they would already use it :-) BTW: Are you thinking about Maven or M2 (maven 2)? (I am sorry for my ignorance here if you have made the decision [M/M2] in previous emails - I am jumping into this thread like a barbarian). I would love to help with maven but I don't have hands-on experience with m2. Regards, Lukas On 2/15/07, karl wettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 15 feb 2007 kl. 20.27 skrev Erik Hatcher: > > On Feb 15, 2007, at 12:10 PM, karl wettin wrote: > >> I would not mind introducing Maven builds in Lucene. It would > >> solve /at least/ this problem. And it would merge so great with my > >> other projects. :) I'd be happy to help out , but there are some > >> wicked anting going on in a lot of build.xml:s so I would probably > >> need a lot of help from the contributors understanding whats going > >> on. > >> > >> Most of the build scripts could be halfway housed using maven- > >> antrun-plugin. > > > > I'm open to Maven builds, for the record. I'll do what I can to > > help with understanding any of the wicked anting in there, but I > > don't know Maven so the best I'll be able to do is explain what is > > going on. The main complexity we have is the contrib area, oh and > > JavaCC... the rest is straightforward stuff. > > I'll see what I can do this weekend. > > > +++ > ATH > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
