On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
On Thursday, Sep 25, 2003, at 10:47 Europe/Rome, Giacomo Pati wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Berin Loritsch wrote:
<snipped>discussion on build infrastructure</snipped>
We tried to have a unified build system with ANT, and all excalibur projects re-using part of the central build file, etc. NIGHTMARE CITY.
Contrast that with the parts that were ported over to use Maven, or the GUIApp project (http://d-haven.org). A world of difference. No longer is there any question about what is needed where. No longer is there a need to have JARs locally in the repository. No longer is there a need to have a 13 MB download for a full distributable. Not to mention, it makes it easier to find out what exactly is a dependency and what is dead weight.
seconded!
are you (or Berin) volunteering? [again, not caustic, just curious]
Well, as my time permits it and Berin could give a hand as well, why not.
But first we need to come to a consensus about which build infrastructure we would support to use:
1) Ant in this case we can use the current build system and tune it to the needs we have for the 2.2 and maybe add some ruper task to get rid of jars in our repository (suggested by Nicola Ken IIRC) and some more for modularisation ease
2) Centipede in this case I could not volunteer as I'm out of Centipede since their move from Cents to Antlibs (we still have some customer project using a Cents based version of it but they will never move to Antlibs)
3) Maven ATM this is my preferred build infrastructure and I could help building the 2.2 repo based on it
Please show your preferences (if you don't have a clue about Maven and/or Centipede have a look at their sites at http://maven.apache.org and http://www.krysalis.org/centipede/ respectively)
If I were to do it: Maven. I have been able to get it to work, and it does the job really well. Anything else, and I wouldn't be able to lend hand due to ignorance, or the avoidance of pain. I.e. for ANT, it would be the avoidance of pain and for Centipede it would be ignorance.
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