>From what I understand, the slowness of 'ivy' can be reduced if you can fetch dependent jars from local ivy server, isn't it?
thanks, dhruba On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Kay Kay <kaykay.uni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mathias - > I have been using Ivy / Maven , interchangeably in different projects for > the build management. Both of them clearly have their strong points and > drawbacks. Ivy fits great for thrift because of the nature of tasks , > involved using some external command-line (thrift generators) etc. As I > mentioned before - HBase does not have such cross maven goals / between the > hairs as the build lifecycle is pretty straight-forward. > In any case - the intention is to get to publish HBase artifacts and > maintain a smaller core and encouraging contribs. from the artifacts as > opposed to getting into the codebase. > Once there are HBase artifacts published , the contrib / plugins for the > same would be free to use ivy (with m2compatible="true") / maven as > appropriate. > > Ryan - > The slowness is attributed to the 'changing="true" ' in ivy.xml-s for all > the hadoop-common / -hdfs / -mapreduce snapshots that we are using. I am > facing similar 'slowness' with other mvn hadoop (snapshot) dependencies as > well. In retrospective, that should have been made a configurable flag in > libraries.properties , to ease things. Hopefully that is sorted out soon. > > > > > On 02/13/2010 12:10 AM, Ryan Rawson wrote: > >> Would you mind elaborating more? At the moment, most people do not >> build hbase, and the POM/jar/publishing thing is orthogonal - those >> who wish to build their own projects with ivy and/or ant are free to >> do so and not be impacted by our use of maven. >> >> We have ivy, but it doesnt integrate with our IDEs and is rather slow >> to build and rebuild. >> >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Mathias Herberts >> <mathias.herbe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> -1 >>> >>> I think Maven is too complex and will lower the adoption of HBase by >>> people today willing to build it. >>> >>> I would suggest using Ivy for dependency management as was done in >>> Thrift. >>> >>> Mathias. >>> >>> >>> >> > -- Connect to me at http://www.facebook.com/dhruba
