Re: Maven for builds instead of ant?

[Mark Womack]

Yep.  I have now been exposed to that as a way to do the same bit that Maven does (the sample code I was looking at had a Maven and an Ant script so you could pick and choose).  I do plan to add it.  Now if only the sun jars could be accessed that way too...or is there a way to access the sun jars this way as well?

thanks!
-Mark

On 10/13/05, Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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
> > >
> > >
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