Hi, I know maven a little and ant a little bit more, but I guess I don't know both good enough to decide which one is the better choice. If there are any advantages using maven, let's do it.
@Jukka As you like to volunteer for a possible migration, have a look at PDFBOX-499 and PDFBOX-500. They already contain patches from Niall for a maven integration of fontbox and jempbox. Jukka Zitting schrieb: > Hi, > > I know we've touched this subject every know and then, but I'd like to > bring it up again: How would people feel about switching from Ant to > Maven as the main PDFBox build tool? > > Such a change would be quite beneficial to anyone who is already > familiar with the Maven conventions. Things like IDE and CI > integration would require next to no manual tweaking, and we could > easily leverage many of the best practices (source and javadoc jars, > built-in PGP signing, UTF-8 source encoding, standard LICENSE and > NOTICE file handling, etc.) encoded in the org.apache:apache parent > POMs. We also wouldn't need to worry about keeping the pom.xml file up > to date with changes in build.xml. > > WDYT? > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting BR Andreas Lehmkühler
