I've been following this list for the last month and last week I checked out the source code to create a patch for Lucene-1260. I had to do some investigating of build-files before I found how to build the whole project and run the tests, but eventually I found the right way.
In the last week there have been conversations about how to run tests in parallell and how to run a single test in a testsuite, and this is stuff that comes out of the box with maven. I scanned markmail and found a conversation about using maven as a build tool and there seem to be some reluctance to using it, especially for projects with many modules. My experience from maven is that it simplifies the build process for large projects a lot, especially multi-module projects. My current assignment has close to 50 modules, and I can't see how that could be built without a tool like maven. There were also comments about that it is hard to customize build process in maven, but you can always use the ant-run plugin to execute some special steps with ant-tasks? I haven't investigad how the current release process is done, but maybe it could be simplified as well? Has there been any attempt of replacing ant with maven? Is ant still the preferred way of building lucene? (I really like ant for customizing the build process, but to use it for a complete multi-module build seems complicated to me.) /Johan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
