On Dec 27, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Niklas Gustavsson wrote:
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Alan D. Cabrera <[email protected]
> wrote:
I'm wondering if it would be possible to have multiple build
systems for the
same body of code. Each build system proponent would take
responsibility
for maintaining their build system. It would kinda like be Berlin
after
WWII.
Out of personal experience, I prefer Maven, simply because I find.it
proposes more consistent builds over multiple projects. And, there is
tons of experience at Apache when using Maven to fulfill all the
Apache requirements on releases (licenses, notices, license headers,
GPG).
Yeah, this has been my experience as well. Maven projects are easier
to grok. Ant projects are a free for all since every developer
creates a build system to suite their personal tastes.
I've mentioned it before but will repeat it again here so as to avoid
the earlier unproductive thread. The touchpoint of ASF projects is
the code not the release JARs and WARs. One of the priorities is to
make things easy to grasp and transparent for new and potential
community members not just keep the status quo of the original
developer group.
Regards,
Alan
