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Rick Hillegas commented on DERBY-6645:
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Hi Moritz,
Can you explain more about the difficulties you encountered when building
Derby? Your feedback will help us improve the build instructions here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/db/derby/code/trunk/BUILDING.html?view=co Did you
have trouble building Derby via the command line or under an IDE (if so, which
one)?
The active Derby contributors don't use Maven much. So I don't think that the
active contributors are likely to convert the Ant scripts to Maven. That work
would have to be done by a new contributor.
Thanks,
-Rick
> Switch to Maven for building Apache Derby
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Key: DERBY-6645
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6645
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build tools
> Affects Versions: 10.10.2.0
> Reporter: Moritz Hoffmann
>
> For a new user building Derby is very hard. It does not follow established
> Java project structures and requires a lot of prior knowledge. Also the
> documentation is rather short. Especially running the tests is non-intuitive
> at the beginning. Thus, I propose that Derby switches to building using Maven
> and restructures its components in a cleaner way. Testing should be revised
> to produce reproducible results. This would make development and testing much
> easier and more user-friendly.
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