It seems to me that if we have a fix for the things that ail our Maven support (Steve's work), that it isn't then the reason for holding up a release and we should just keep them as there are a significant number of users who consume Lucene that way (via the central repository). I agree that we should not switch our build system, but supporting the POMs is no different than supporting the IntelliJ/Eclipse generation tools (they are both problematic since they are not automated)
On Jan 18, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Robert Muir wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> More than one build tools is not way to go, I believe everyone agrees >> on that, and that it's not an issue. >> >> Have you guys at least considered making a switch to a build tool that >> knows to produce maven artifacts (or enhancing exiting one to take >> care of that)? E.g. ant+ivy, gradle, maven itself. >> > > I think its important to look at the build system as supporting > development too, but most features being developed today are against > lucene's core: which has no dependencies at all. > > For example, our ant build supports rapidly running the core tests > (splitting them across different jvms in parallel: i've looked at the > support for parallel testing in other build systems like maven and I > think ours is significantly better for our tests). > > This compile-test-debug lifecycle is important, for the lucene core > tests its very fast. > > So while I might agree with you that for something like Solr > development, perhaps ant+ivy is something worth considering, I think > its overkill and would be a step backwards for lucene, we would only > slow down development. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
