Quoting Mark Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I guess I should just use Maven to keep up jar repository up-to-date > locally. :-) >
The Tomcat build that Yoav refers to does auto-downloading of dependencies. Why can't Log4j's build? Just use the <get> task, just like the Tomcat build. Jake > -Mark > > On 10/12/05, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > -0.5 on using Maven. My experience with it has been that it's kind of nice > > for > > generating project documentation, but for most real-life (i.e. complex > > dependencies, multiple builders on different environments) projects, the > > setup > > overhead is not worth the benefits. > > > > It is also not as widely used as Ant, and I don't want to raise the bar > > for our > > users who build log4j themselves without a significant benefit. > > > > We should instead keep build.properties.default more suitable for you so > > you > > have very little (if any) manual build.properties updating to do each > > time. If > > we have managed to do it for Tomcat and other more complicated products > > (as we > > have), we can do it for log4j. > > > > Yoav > > > > --- Mark Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have any experience with using Maven for the build > > environment > > > with/instead of Ant? I am really tired of having to keep the > > > build.properties up to date on my machine and update everytime I do a > > new > > > checkout. I saw where Maven can be used to grab the desired version from > > > ibiblio, etc, but I don't know how the rest of our build would > > translate. I > > > need to do more homework. > > > > > > If anyone has experience or opinions, I would like to hear back. > > > > > > thanks, > > > -Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
