+1 to Martijn's gesture to a conversion tool, I'm personally driven to explore these:
- Gradle - Maven and its derivatives are a good option too (see this article http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/why-build-your-java-projects-with-gradle/240168608 ) - https://buildr.apache.org/ - https://facebook.github.io/buck/ - ultra fast ;) You might not go for this immediately, but ideas from here are good for the present and future of Java - https://typesafe.com/blog/zinc-and-incremental-compilation Here's a nice comparison - https://www.symphonious.net/2010/01/11/comparing-build-systems/ I find XML hard to read compared to JSON or YAML - especially when your XML file grows into a big huge monolith. With this I hope I have made some friends and some will likely become friends eventually. Cheers, Mani On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftw...@gmail.com > wrote: > 2015-04-01 11:59 GMT+02:00 Martijn Verburg <martijnverb...@gmail.com>: > > I'm personally willing to provide a ANT to MAVEN conversion tool which > will > > allow for a more verbose an rdable build system. It will also ensure > that > > dependencies are always downloaded at all times ensuring network pipes > are > > kept clean. > > Ok, I've had a discussion with the rest of my team and we are > convinced that real Free Software projects cannot live without > Makefiles. > > So in order to give people choice I'm volunteering to restore the old > system used in IcedTea version 6 as a fork of the current ant based > build tool. > > While there, we noticed that Mercurial is really leading to a very > high flow of patches, too difficult to work with and follow, so we > decide to move to RCS. > > We think this is the only reasonable thing to do in a fast paced > project and the increased workflow will create less and more focused > commits, leading to a higher quality of them! > > Cheers, > Mario > -- > pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF > Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF > > Java Champion - Blog: http://neugens.wordpress.com - Twitter: @neugens > Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ > OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ > > Please, support open standards: > http://endsoftpatents.org/ > -- @theNeomatrix369 <http://twitter.com/theNeomatrix369>* | **Blog <http://neomatrix369.wordpress.com>** | *LJC Associate & LJC Advocate (@adoptopenjdk & @adoptajsr programs) *Meet-a-Project - *MutabilityDetector <https://github.com/MutabilityDetector>* | **Bitbucket <https://bitbucket.org/neomatrix369>* * | **Github <https://github.com/neomatrix369>* * | **LinkedIn <http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/mani-sarkar/71/a77/39b>* *Come to Devoxx UK 2015:* http://www.devoxx.co.uk/ *Don't chase success, rather aim for "Excellence", and success will come chasing after you!*
