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Stefan Podkowinski commented on CASSANDRA-13724:
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The biggest benefit is that you're more open to community contributions with a
maven based build process. Our home-grown ant solution works, but most devs
will only ever have to build, test and manage dependencies. Standard tasks like
this shouldn't require all the complexity that comes with build.xml.
What I'd like to try out at some point is to see if we can have both solutions
in the future, the ant process working as is and additionally maven, which
would be able to compile, test and package the project. Ant targets could then
be migrated to maven over time, or just [executed by
maven|http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-antrun-plugin/].
It's really not that hard to do this step by step. I managed to replace the
maven-ant-tasks (project not maintained for many years) with the Aether
dependency resolver that is used starting in maven 3. Doing so allows you to
externalize pom files with your dependencies and we could continue to take this
further by calling from ant into maven or the other way around (but probably
not in this ticket). See
[WIP-13724|https://github.com/spodkowinski/cassandra/tree/WIP-13724]
> Cleanup build.xml dependencies
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> Key: CASSANDRA-13724
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13724
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build
> Reporter: Stefan Podkowinski
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.x
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> As discussed in CASSANDRA-12996, the build.xml has become pretty messy and
> could use some cleanup and additional inline comments. Maybe parts of it
> could be even split up or externalized.
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