there's a plugin for ant called ivy that handled dependencies ala maven.
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
On Feb 11, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
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
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Von: Woonsan Ko
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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
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