>> Reality check: "Signs, MD5, and Uploads to Apache dist (with no
>> additional dependencies or configuration)" - how's this going to work,
>> via telepathy? :-D

Trusted hosts (or same host) and a continuous integration server with a
manually invoked distribution target.  CI server runs as the "deploy" user
which is a trusted signatory of the Apache distribution system.

Clinton

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Larry Meadors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Brandon Goodin
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As a follow up to all who are reading this thread. Let me be very clear.
> Any
> > aggressive comments are made in jest and fun. We are all good friends
> here
> > and enjoy the big brother banter. Please don't take this as an
> opportunity
> > to truly dig on any one of us.
>
> ...well, except for Brandon. He really is a butthead. ;-)
>
> Funny how everyone gets so worked up about how we'll implement
> build.sh, isn't it? :-)
>
> Since everyone has an opinion on this, here's mine: I think we should use
> Maven.
>
> I agree with Clinton that there aren't *problems* with the current
> iBATIS build, but at the same time, it would simplify how we do
> releases, because as we are seeing, there are more requests (even from
> us) for maven artifacts by our users, and mavenizing our build will
> make meeting our needs easier.
>
> IMO, the things that Clinton is asking for are not unreasonable, but
> they are not uber-critical either.
>
> Let's be really honest here: How critical is it that we are able to
> "echo arbitrary information to the command line, such as classpath in
> use and current version being built"? Seriously? :-/
>
> Reality check: "Signs, MD5, and Uploads to Apache dist (with no
> additional dependencies or configuration)" - how's this going to work,
> via telepathy? :-D
>
> It's going to be different if we use a different tool. Neither tool is
> perfect, so yes, it'll suck. But ant sucks, too - just in a different
> way.
>
> My vote is we arrange the source tree to fit what maven expects.
> Clinton: I don't care if you don't have to do that with ant. :-P Then,
> lets see how close we can get to all of the current ant script. If we
> can't get 100%, I'm OK with that, if we can get close and work towards
> that goal.
>
> At the end of the day, which ever one makes it easier for me to use
> iBATIS (I really don't care about anyone else, sorry) is the one I
> want. For me, that means Maven is the better choice. This is a one
> time task, so maintenance is not that big of a deal, and it'll output
> the jar (like ant does) and the maven artifacts (like ant does not).
> It does more, and is a one time investment, let's just get it done and
> move on.
>
> Larry
>

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