Hi,
For over years I used ant for build and release in many of my projects
than tried maven after. I spent time on gradle also - liked its
architecture. I can say hat it is moving simple to complex in terms of
usage through ant-maven-gradle way.
Ant is really simple in terms of usage and to understand what is going
on but you have to do lots of thing manually while maven has lots of
build in features that makes life easier but bringing complexity.
Especially artifact generation, central management of released artifacts
and referenced library downloads are time and disk space consuming heavy
tasks but you do not have to think about the nested references of
libraries on the other side which in ant you have to consider.
So as the result I think if the scheduling and the dependency management
is not the issue, and if it is necessary I am not against mixed release
cycle with ant and maven.
If not than it is better to leave the decision to RM.
The shortest way the one that you know I believe.
for nice comparison : https://www.baeldung.com/ant-maven-gradle
Thanks,
Serkan
25.03.2020 20:31 tarihinde Carlos Rovira yazdı:
Hi all,
if you care about this project, the PMC will need your help to know
what's important to you about the "Release Process".
Chris Dutz and I was working these days on release a new version. We
finally give up due to the complexity of the process.
The process involves to build in a CI Server with 13 steps and each
one with some manual commands in CI server and in local machine. The
process involves use Ant and Maven build systems, and that's what
makes it so complicated.
Maven is the the most widest and used build system for release as this
statistics clearly states [1] and is perfectly prepared for CI servers
and all the tooling needed nowadays for release process.
Chris and I thinks that just using Maven can reduce the process to 2-3
steps and release without much problem, and even release often (each
month or each 2 months).
So we're asking to not require Ant to be part of the release process,
since we think is not needed.
(This does NOT means remove Ant, we are talking just about release,
and people using Ant will be able to continue using it as a build
system, so don't be afraid about Ant support in the future!).
We're afraid for this project due to this problem, so for this reason
is important that you express what's important from your point of view
as an Apache Royale user. So please express yourself in this thread
and let us know what path should we take. It's important.
We want to hear from you!
Thanks community :)
[1] https://twitter.com/ChristoferDutz/status/1240219399551934473
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