I'll weigh in and throw a -1 to a Maven-only build system for Solr.
If there is still a functioning Ant build, but Mavenites have a
parallel setup, that's fine by me and I'd be -0 on that.
These days, Buildr has my attention as a way to get the best of all
worlds: access to Ant's powerful task library, POM/repo handling, AND
Ruby :)
Erik
On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
I'm not particularly opposed to it, but I'm not exactly for it
either. I very much have a love hate relationship with Maven. The
simple things work fine w/ Maven and the power of pointing Eclipse
or IntelliJ at a POM file and having the whole project imported and
ready to work on w/o one iota of setup is something that the
proponents of Ant just don't get, especially when it comes to
multiple module builds like Solr and Lucene have. That being
said, there are a lot of headaches with Maven, number one being
releases, number two being anything custom and number three being
the constant instability of the magic happening behind the scenes
with it upgrading dependencies, etc. automatically. Finally, I've
always had a hard time getting help in Maven land. It always seemed
to me the number of incoming questions outweighed the number of
answers about 10 to 1.
I converted Mahout to Maven and it was a pain. I also use Maven for
personal development as well. It is much easier to start fresh on
Maven than it is to add it in later. And, there is something to be
said for the Maven Ant plugin, but even that is clunky.
In the end, I think I'd be +0 on it. It's also come up in the past
on the lists and there never is a clear consensus.
-Grant
On Jun 28, 2009, at 12:33 PM, aldana wrote:
hi,
are there plans to migrate from ant to maven2? maybe not for the
current
trunk (mainline for 1.4), but maybe for the trunk after releasing
solr 1.4.
it makes the build more standard and easier to import to IDEs.
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