> -----Original Message----- > From: Berin Loritsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Ant/Maven/Centipede discussion > > > Kevin O'Neill wrote: > >>Again, I am not pressing for Maven, but these are the > features that we > >>get for free with it. Since it looks like we are using > ANT, how do we > >>resolve these needs? > > > > > > Umm I'm not sure that this is the case. There is nothing > I've seen or > > used with Maven that can't be done with ant 1.6 (import / subant / > > antlib etc). The bous is that you get to set the > dependencies between > > build targets not mavne (which as can be seen from the > latest set of > > issues with aspectj) can be very difficult to resolve. > > > The thing is that Ant 1.6 as promissing as it sounds is not > released yet. If we keep the same build system, thats fine. > However, I would prefer we do this with something we can > expect to find *installed* on a developer's machine.
Cocoon comes with its own Ant - there's no need for an installed Ant on the developer's machine. So if we decide to use Ant 1.6 the user will get it automatically. Reinhard > That > kind of excludes 1.6, but we can use 1.5.4...
