Python and Go are used by the gen-doc target. Code changes can break these, hence it is part of `ant check`. It is not called by `ant jar`
If you want to run check but skip it, it's to add `-Dant.gen-doc.skip=true` On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 at 22:06, Alex Petrov <al...@coffeenco.de> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Building Cassandra jar has been getting increasingly slow, and now it > looks like we depend not only on python3 (which was already not optimal), > but also on go: > > ant -Dno-checkstyle=true > > ... > > [exec] python3 ./scripts/gen-nodetool-docs.py > [exec] python3 ./scripts/convert_yaml_to_adoc.py > ../conf/cassandra.yaml > ./modules/cassandra/pages/managing/configuration/cass_yaml_file.adoc > [exec] ./scripts/process-native-protocol-specs-in-docker.sh > [exec] Go env not found in your system, proceeding with installation. > [exec] Downloading Go 1.23.1... > [exec] Installing Go 1.23.1... > [exec] Building the cqlprotodoc... > [exec] Cloning into 'cassandra-website'... > [exec] Your branch is up to date with 'origin/trunk'. > [exec] go: downloading github.com/mvdan/xurls v1.1.0 > [exec] Processing the .spec files... > > I personally consider this extremely dangerous, but also unnecessary. My > current stance is that functionality introducing python3 and go should be > moved to a separate task that only runs on demand / ci / release. I > welcome convincing arguments that would suggest otherwise. > > If you agree we should not require python and go to run `ant > -Dno-checkstyle=true`, please also write a short message, this will be very > helpful as well. > > Thank you, > --Alex >
