+1 -----Original Message----- From: Samuel Langlois [mailto:slangl...@ilog.fr] Sent: 23. februar 2009 16:11 To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: Re: Mavenizing existing project
>> >> 2. Would I be better served by renaming directories at the start to Maven >> "Convention over Configuration" standards or by overrriding the defaults >> all >> the way down the line? > > > Yes. > > This is the way I recommend myself. > > There are two ways you can do this... > > 1. Make the changes in trunk, and keep the existing build process > functional > while you change everything... this allows you to ignore maven until you > get > everything perfect. > > 2. Make the changes in a branch and merge them back when you're ready... > > I agree you should follow the Maven "happy path". I migrated a big several-million-LOC project from Ant to Maven, and I chose a 3rd way, somewhat in-between. The trick is to keep the trunk as it is, so that people can still work with Ant as they are used to, and to perform the migration in a branch. In the branch, you commit only your pom.xml files and an empty folder structure. Every time you need some files from the trunk, you use svn:externals to make a kind of 'dynamic link' inside your SVN repository. Typically, your svn:external will look like this: module/submodule/src/main/java http://repo/trunk/module/submodule/src This way, you can quietly migrate without bothering anyone. When the migration is ready, you also need to make a shell script that will copy the pom.xml from the branch to the trunk and move all source folders in the right place. Similarly, you can prepare and test this script quietly on your side without impacting developers. The migration itself is then just a matter of minutes, while the script is run and you commit everything. That was a little more work for me, but not having 40 stuck developers on my back while I was performing the migration was priceless :-) Hope this will help you Samuel -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mavenizing-existing-project-tp22147061p22163304.ht ml Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
