kriegaex commented on PR #123: URL: https://github.com/apache/xalan-java/pull/123#issuecomment-1813811895
> It should be noted that makefiles, done properly, are also declarative. I know, even though it has been ages since I used one. > if anything they are _more_ dependency driven If done right, they are actually great for incremental builds in which really only the absolute minimum of what has changed will be rebuilt. I remember, in the old times I managed to speed up a cross-compile build from Linux to an embedded platform from 1 hour for tiny changes to a few seconds, just because I took the trouble to stringently define dependencies and not build everything or at least way too much "just to be safe". Maven is less fine-granular in this regard and therefore more "wasteful". But still, if done right (again), you can make Maven builds faster and not always build everything. Hence my idea with profiles. You might think that 2 minutes are fast. I prefer 2 seconds, especially if I rebuild 50 times in the process of optimising some piece of code or Maven POMs, which lately I have done in Xalan-J to help you a bit. I lose more time waiting for builds than I need to make changes in POMs. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
