Re: Using Maven instead of Ant?

2015-11-05 Thread Niels Basjes
My guess is that one of the reasons is that it is a very big change (everything needs to move to different directories). Doing such a large change takes time (i.e. few days/weeks); In an active project like Pig the project will have changed so much that you essentially have the biggest merge confli

Re: Using Maven instead of Ant?

2015-11-05 Thread Alan Gates
I think we're all for making the switch, just no one's gotten around to doing it. Alan. Niels Basjes November 5, 2015 at 4:52 Hi, For me using the ant build system in pig is extremely difficult. Today I spent about 2 hours trying simply compile and run a test in piggy

Re: Using Maven instead of Ant?

2015-11-05 Thread Niels Basjes
Ah yes, I found it. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2599 Quite old. Apparently no one has picked this up yet. :( On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Santosh Pingale wrote: > I think it was a problem statement for GSoC. > On Nov 5, 2015 6:22 PM, "Niels Basjes" wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > For

Re: Using Maven instead of Ant?

2015-11-05 Thread Santosh Pingale
I think it was a problem statement for GSoC. On Nov 5, 2015 6:22 PM, "Niels Basjes" wrote: > Hi, > > For me using the ant build system in pig is extremely difficult. > Today I spent about 2 hours trying simply compile and run a test in > piggybank (In case you wonder; it was this one > https://is

Using Maven instead of Ant?

2015-11-05 Thread Niels Basjes
Hi, For me using the ant build system in pig is extremely difficult. Today I spent about 2 hours trying simply compile and run a test in piggybank (In case you wonder; it was this one https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4689 ). I have not been able to get it to work. In the end I created the