Hi, If you want to come up with a Maven build file, have a blast. But the key thing is maintaining it afterwards: it won't replace the Ant file, but you'd still have to maintain it current as we change dependencies and stuff...
Yoav --- Tan Yoke Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm keen of learning new tech, may I know where to get sample to test with > maven? > > YY. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joerg Hohwiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:48 PM > To: Log4J Developers List > Subject: Re: Maven for builds instead of ant? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yoav Shapira wrote: > > Hi, > Hey, > > -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. > Actually I do not agree. Maven may force you to structure your project well. > If you can not do your build with maven, your project is in a sick state. > For individual tasks you have to define your own logic - but in this point > there is no difference between ant and maven except for the way you code the > logic. > Did you guyz try maven2? The things that suck in maven are solved in maven2. > It is still in beta status and for site generation it is not very good yet, > but it will rock! > > > > 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 > Jörg > > > > --- 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] > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFDfYcfmPuec2Dcv/8RAqKVAJ98gB+IS5tzUoMmRg5fybdNSnDplgCgiOMO > PKtRAlBmSVzDItOPeypkzJo= > =Vamp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > > Yoav Shapira System Design and Management Fellow MIT Sloan School of Management Cambridge, MA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.yoavshapira.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
