On Mar 26, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Jarkko Oranen wrote:
No, compilation should not be included. You mention make; it is a
macro language, dependency graph walker, shell executor and
up-to-dateness checker. It doesn't do any compilation. It's very bare
bones. It's not at all perfect but it's much closer to what I want
from a build system than something like Maven.
Again, I think this is mistaken. Make alone, as you describe it, is
*not* a build system. You have to do lots of manual work to make your
application build if you use plain make, most of which a system like
maven can do for you, since it's configured declaratively. With maven,
you don't usually tell it what to do, you need to tell it what you
want; and I think that is how a build system should be.
I would add to this that Maven, if one wants to be (IMO) pedantic
about it, isn't a build system at all -- it's a shell that includes
the bits needed for dependency resolution and command execution.
Everything else comes down as plugins (which is where the hyperbole
comes in about maven "downloading the internet").
Of course, everyone uses it as a build system, just like everyone uses
make as a build system.
Cheers,
- Chas
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