For [collections] ant is still the 'preferred' build tool. The website is done with maven, but no more. This seems to use maven for what its best at, website production. Stephen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Pugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Commons-Dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 4:42 PM Subject: [general] Do we need to support Ant based builds? > Subject says it all. For configuration we use Maven to perform the build.. > And frequently we get questions from people using the Ant based build, which > we seem to be pathologically incapable of keeping up to date... > > I am trying to go come up with solutions like: > 1) Rebuild the ant build.xml as part of the normal build process > 2) Do funky logic to detect if the ant build.xml is out of date w/ the maven > process > > However, if we could just say "use Maven" then things would be much simpler. > While I don't want to come across as a Maven zealot or providing bad > customer service to all the Ant users, having the two build systems leads to > lots of problems for Ant users... > > Eric Pugh > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
