Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
Ok, so I'm really getting fed up with these build discussions, and if we don't give it a break they will continue to grow.
Some people here are not satisfied with our build system, and advocate Maven. I definately agree with the first part, and am, for technical but also for historical reasons, very much adverse to the second one.
Thus, from this point I am now taking on myself the task of restructuring our Ant buildsystem to make it seamless and easy to use and administer. In this process I will also make changes to Forrest and use extra Ant tasks from Incubator Depot.
For this I need a branch, as I don't want to break anything and in the same time I want all to see what is happening with the progress. Actually this is why I asked for switching to SVN in the first place.
Why do you need a branch? Just name the new Ant file "new-build.xml" and it can live beside the current one.
This has at least two benefits:
- doesn't need a separate checkout to use it (meaning more people will look at it)
- allow people to use the two builds on the same code base to make a comparison.
Note that I have nothing against the move to SVN. I just find branching overkill for this problem.
Sylvain
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