I have experience of Maven/Centipede so I can at least comment on this 
projects:

Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote:
> I've read the past flame war between centipede/maven. My understanding
> is that centipede is close to Jakarta, and may one day be added to the
> Jakarta tools. 

If you've read those threads I won;t go into the advantages and 
disadvantages of each approach, they are covered quite well in these 
threads.

> I've been waiting for a stabilization (i.e. release) of the centipede
> tool in the past weeks, (I didn't dare trying the CVS version.). But it
> has not yet happened. So all my knowledge comes from reading
> documentation and mailing lists.

The current beta release of Centipede is very stable. I have been using 
it for quite some time on a number of projects. However, there are some 
fundamental changes being made at present to the way to the way the core 
system works. The most important is that with the next release only one 
central version of Centipede will be required (at the moment each 
project uses it's own copy).

It is safe to start using Centipede now, the migration path to the next 
version will be perfectly manageable, but will involve some config file 
changes.


> Questions:
> 
> - is my understanding of the various tools correct? I am a little bit
> lost on how to integrate maven/gump/centipede. Especially as the maven
> cent was/is to be removed from the centipede project. 

A vote has been taken on this and the decision was *not* to remove 
Maven. The reason the vote arose in the first place was that nobody is 
supporting the Maven cent, presumably because no one currently using 
Centipede needs it (I know I have it turned off in all my projects). 
However, it is to remain in place so that shuold someone want to support 
it they can.


> - to make my CI tool, as I didn't find a free java/Ant to SCC interface
> library, I will have to write my own wrapper scripts using the command
> line API to my RCS. but I am not sure whether I can integrate this into
> the CI tools easily. Any comment?
> - migrating to CVS seems like a required step at some point. At least
> that would ease some things. Unfortunately, I don't think I can make it
> happen in the next 6 months. Deadlines are coming and developers would
> have to be trained to the new tool which means it won'        t probably happen
> until a while. Do you think it is possible to use any of these tools
> (especially Gump) without having a hard dependency on CVS? If not, any
> idea, perhaps using an Ant target calling the scripts wrapping the RCS
> command line ?
> - any advice/comment that my be of interest to me? future of the tools,
> idea to solve my problems, comment on centipede/gump ...
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jerome
> 
> 
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