- automated daily builds, including publication of the "latest and greatest" version on the project web site.
- automated QA runs on the current build (JUnit, FindBugs, whatever), of course with automatic publication of the test results
- handling dependencies on subcomponents. Example: You're only interested in developing the "Foo" cartridge, so you set up a CVS repository for it and configure Maven to use the current build from the main AndroMDA web site for all dependecies.
In short, this sounds like just the situation where we can actually profit from Maven.
yes, this is true.
The only downside I can see is that more people are familiar with Ant than with Maven, which makes it a bit more difficult to attract new developers. But that's what we have a Wiki for, isn't it? :-)
And this is what I really hate: complexity. Adding Maven as the build system for AndroMDA means adding complexity of building those cartridges. I don't see any problem if AndroMDA Core or Samples use Maven for their build system. But if you also need Maven to build your cartridges... Gee, I don't think that this is a good idea... Remember KISS ;-)
At the moment it's pretty straight forward to build your own cartridges: - Use the cartridge structure. - Apply some changes into *one* Ant build file. - That's it.
Also, Ant support for IDE (NetBeans and Eclipse) is gorgious! But Maven?
Please think about this twice, before you jump into Maven wagon, just for one Ant build file ;-)
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