Woonsan, I totally agree with you. And I have to add one advantage of Maven:
- Solves project dependencies. For example, Maven would download the JavaMail JARs and add them to the project. I think just today, there were questions regarding mail.jar and activation.jar Using Maven build files is *a lot* easier than Ant build files. You see from questions to this list that using ant is not trivial. Regards, Matt > ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- > Von: Woonsan Ko > Gesendet: 01:45 Uhr > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Maven2 build > > Dear Dave, > > IMHO, in general, the followings could be benefits for Roller > (http://maven.apache.org/what-is-maven.html): > - Making the build process easy > - Providing a uniform build system > - Providing quality project information > - Providing guidelines for best practices development > - Allowing transparent migration to new features > > For example, the Struts2 homepage (http://struts.apache.org/2.x/) > provides more quality project > information on the project information menu and project report menu on > the left side. (The site is > built from `mvn site' command from the source.) > There could be some debates on each benefit item above, but I'm feeling > that Maven2 could be a > good build option, so it would be better to provide both Ant and Maven2 > build for the community. > > Actually, I do not have strong voice on this. (I have contributed a > Korean resource translation > only until now.) I think Maven2 will benefit to Roller project and I'd > like to help you committers > on this issue. > > Regards, > > Woonsan > > > --- Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 11, 2008 1:21 AM, Woonsan Ko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear committers, community, > > > > > > The current roller sources seems providing ant build file only. > > > Do you have any plan or schedule for providing maven2 build in > roller? > > > If necessary, I'd like to work and contribute something for maven2 > build. > > > What do you think? > > > > Two thoughts: > > The current build process works fine. > > I don't know Maven nor do I have a desire to learn it. > > > > What specific problems will moving to Maven solve for Roller? > > > > - Dave > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger
