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Abe Ratnofsky commented on CASSANDRA-17750:
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[~e.dimitrova] would you be able to review the documentation PR? As someone who
didn't review the original change, your opinion on whether it's clear would be
very helpful!
> Remove dependency on Maven Ant Tasks
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> Key: CASSANDRA-17750
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17750
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build, Dependencies, Packaging
> Reporter: Abe Ratnofsky
> Assignee: Abe Ratnofsky
> Priority: Normal
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 4.2
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> Time Spent: 10h 50m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Apache Cassandra depends on Maven Ant Tasks (MAT) during build, for declaring
> dependencies and generating POM files from within build.xml. MAT has long
> been retired (no commits since maintenance in 2015), has registered CVEs in
> dependencies (CVE-2017-1000487), and encourages migration to its successor,
> Maven Artifact Resolver Ant Tasks (MARAT).
> As part of CASSANDRA-16391
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16391>, mck migrated
> dependency resolution to MARAT, but MAT is still included in our build for
> generating POMs since MARAT does not have an alternative to the writepom task
> provided by MAT. I have a patch ready that removes MAT completely, with a
> workaround for POM generation.
> I am not advocating for any kind of migration away from Ant to an alternative
> like Gradle or Maven, just to be extra clear.
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