On 8/9/2010 5:22 PM, Adam Lally wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Please post feedback on this build process - is this a good direction, and >> whether or not you are able to do builds! >> >> > I like some things about Maven, but the experience of using it has > definitely been frustrating. Any time you try to do something out of the > ordinary, it is a real struggle. I remember experiencing that frustration > when we first migrated out build to Maven, and now I've been seeing Marshall > go through it again. > > However, our previous build process wasn't so great either. Our ant scripts > had grown organically until they were a mess that wasn't maintainable. And > without maven to automatically download dependencies like Eclipse jars, in > order to build UIMA you had to manually obtain Eclipse (and a particular > version of it, too) and a couple of other dependencies, which was a pain. > > I think that I can work with what we have now, even if it's not ideal. I > was able to do a build following the instructions, but it's very cumbersome > and I worry that it will discourage people from becoming involved in the > project.
Was the cumbersome part doing the one-time-setups, or was it something afterwards, in doing the builds themselves? > Some of this should resolve itself in time. Hopefully, it will > not be too long before the Maven beta is released and m2eclipse comes > packaged with it. I didn't know that editing the docbook plugin was > optional, if I was willing to wait longer for a build. I'm not totally sure that's the case; it would need to be confirmed... > If that's the case, > I'd be in favor of dropping this step entirely from the "one time setup" > page - the shorter the instructions on that page, the better. The docbooks > don't need to be built all that often anyway. > -Adam >
