It seems to me that Maven is great for general things, but if something very specific needs to be done, Ant build files allow you to specify the nitty gritty details. If Maven can do absolutely everything that the Ant build can do, then My vote is to provide Maven functionality, but don't remove the Ant build so that people like me who haven't been completely swayed to make the switch to Maven can still build Log4j.
I have some experience with this issue since I wrote the build file for the Prevayler project ( http://www.prevayler.org/ ). There is a Maven project file, but my build file does things such as providing targets for running demos and building contrib projects that I don't see how Maven can provide since it is a general build tool that pretty much only allows you to do things the way that it wants to you to do things. It can't predict subtleties that one might want in a build. Am I wrong here? Am I just really missing something? Is Maven just so flexible that I should be able to do anything and everything that Ant allows for in an easier to configure and more organized way? I'd love to believe that.
Jake
At 08:19 AM 6/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Shapira, Yoav wrote:
Howdy, Seeing Scott's message with the PMD results made me think how nicely Maven makes project reports available, e.g. PMD and Checkstyle. For example, see the Torque site at http://db.apache.org/torque/, specifically the Project Reports section near the bottom left side of the page. What do people think about mavenizing the log4j web site? I would like to, but I'm not fanatic enough about it to do it if no one else thinks it's a good idea ;) Moreover, I'd be willing to do it myself (I don't think it's be that much work) if people think it's a good idea. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics
On the Avalon team we have been switching to Maven because it does make things easier on the user, as well as the maintainer. A Maven Project file changes far less than an Ant file.
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