Pierre van Rooden wrote: > So, after Nico's presentation at the dev meeting, what do people think > of the use of Maven for MMBase?
As Ernst pointed out I feel that we indeed do have a formalized build process already, and that it would be a bit folly to throw that out of the window. Still I feel that with maven we may be better suited for the future, because sooner or later we are going to want something which we don't currently support in our build already. E.g. the maven reports are quite neat, and I would not like to imitate that, and I rather would migrate to maven then. I would propose that we start using maven for simple things first, e.g. the applications module and more importantly the 'contributions' module, because that last one lacks a build completely, also because this 'maven' decision keeps pending. In that way everybody is forced to use it, it hardly can give very many problems because it realy is quite straighforward there. We can easily see what kind of problems it gives and/or solves. If we are happy, we can gradually also replace the build of mmbase.jar and of documentation etc.. If we are not happy, we simply throw it away again, or - more realisticly - will live with two formalisms simultaneously for ever... Michiel -- Michiel Meeuwissen mihxil' Mediacentrum 140 H'sum [] () +31 (0)35 6772979 nl_NL eo_XX en_US _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
