Hi all, my intention was to allow our users to use the samples without using Maven but only using Ant. It's like XDoclet: XDoclet is built using Maven but is delivered in binary form so that I can immediately use it with Ant, only. I must say that I admire Maven but I would not have used XDoclet if it would have forced me to learn Maven first (in fact, I was not ready to see the usefulness of Maven back in those days).
The src zip should be shipped without any binaries because I trust those people who know how to recompile AndroMDA to use Maven correctly and with proper motivation. Another point is: If we don't use Ant any more, the AndroMDA Ant task will not be tested any more and bugs might creep in over time. Thoughts? Matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: Wouter Zoons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 6:53 AM > To: 'Chad Brandon'; 'Matthias Bohlen' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Andromda-devel] MAVEN_OPTS make build possible > > > > I'm not really sure what the benefit is of being able > > to build offline the first time? Once the user builds > > the samples once..they can then build offline if > > they'd like. > > > > The way I see it, is that we include in the dist any > > AndroMDA modules that we are releasing as well as the > > core libs required by these core modules. When the > > user builds the samples, the extra libs required by > > the samples would just be downloaded by maven like > > normal. What do you guys think? Maybe I'm missing > > something, but to me it doesn't make sense to bundle > > all the libs used by our samples. > > > > Although I understand Matthias' request, I have to say I > agree with Chad. It will introduce only more complexity to be > able to build offline the first time. > > Anyway, someone who is ready to build AndroMDA from the > sources will surely be happy to download the dependencies > separately into his local Maven repository during the first > build. I see this feature as an advantage (small src bundle > footprint, easy when you are already using > maven: maybe you'll already have some of the dependendies, ...). > > Why don't we meet in the middle ? We could make a bundle > available which basically is a zip file containing the > library dependencies. This one would be quite big, but users > who want to build offline for some reason, would simply > download a copy of this lib too. > > So it would be what Matthias wants, only in a separate bundle. > > What do you think ? > > Wouter. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Andromda-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-devel
