Carsten Ziegeler wrote:
> Dr. Michael Lipp wrote:
>> David Sean Taylor wrote:
>>> As for using Maven-2 in the Jetspeed build, I think there is still a
>>> valid argument to take this approach. As suggested more than once on the
>>> dev list, maybe the problem isn't Maven, its really us. Anyone at
>>> Mergere want to send the Jetspeed team and users to a Maven-2 training
>>> session?
>> But that's the point: nobody in our organization has ever required or
>> requested an Ant training!
>>
>> And even if the Jetspeed team can handle Maven-2 easily after having
>> been trained (and I doubt it, I mean, these are really capable people
>> that have obviously gone to great lengths to get things going; what
>> crucial knowledge can they gain in a training), what happens to the rest
>> of us?
>>
> Hmm, now I think the best build system should not be visibile to the
> user which
> means you just invoke "build.bat/build.sh" and are done - and this is
> regardless of using either ant or maven or whatever. And I think this
> should be possible with both ant or maven.
"The rest of us" is not the usual "end-user" that tries to build the
application for what reason soever. Really using Jetspeed requires
getting familiar with its components and creating modified or new
components. While in a perfect world this should be possible in an
independent project by referring to the binaries only, it really helps
to have a look at what has been done in the project itself, e.g. to find
out which libraries are needed, how things are assembled etc.
(And maybe you don't want your component to be independent, maybe it
could be a valuable addition to Jetspeed and you want to see it being
integrated into Jetspeed.)
The best that can happen to you is if you can take the original build
commands to get started with your own component. When I got familiar
with Jetspeed, I needed a component to better integrate with JBoss. I
found a rather similar one and took it as a starting point.
Nevertheless, it took me more than a week (wasn't a full-time job) to
get around the problems with maven and start doing the real work.
Regards,
Michael
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