Hi Julien, [+1] We can remove pom.xml
I wonder Why don't we switch our dependency management ivy+ant to maven ? Most of IDEs works very good with maven. Talat 2014-07-15 13:36 GMT+03:00 Julien Nioche <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > One of the frequent issues on the mailing list / JIRA is that users can be > led to think that Nutch is built with Maven as they can see what looks like > a perfectly valid pom.xml at the root of the project. It becomes clearer > when reading the WIKI or FAQ that ANT should be used instead but it isn't > an unreasonnable assumption, is it? > > As we know this pom.xml is generated automatically when we publish the > Maven artefacts with the deploy task i.e. it is never done by end users and > only when we release a new version. This pom.xml is generated from a > template file in the ivy dir and uses the ivy dependencies. > > This pom.xml file cannot be used to build Nutch core nor the plugins but > was used by Eclipse users to easily import the project and get the > dependencies, which can be done very neatly with the 'ant eclipse' task or > by using the IvyDE plugin for Eclipse. Moreover there is no guarantee that > it is in sync with the content of the Ivy deps. > > I suggest that we remove the pom.xml file from the source (and the > releases) to get rid of this source of confusion. Apart from the solutions > I just mentioned to get the dependencies in Eclipse etc... there is always > the option of calling 'ant deploy' to generate a fresh new pom.xml if you > really need one. > > Can we please have your views on this? > > [+1] yes > [-1] no, here is why... > [0] don't mind > > Thanks > > Julien > > -- > > Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering > > http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ > http://www.digitalpebble.com > http://twitter.com/digitalpebble > -- Talat UYARER Websitesi: http://talat.uyarer.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/talatuyarer Linkedin: http://tr.linkedin.com/pub/talat-uyarer/10/142/304
